"It’s not out of the question," Elon Musk said back in 2022 when MrBeast asked if he could be the next X (then Twitter) CEO.

X is still the dominant social media platform, but its daily active user base has declined and competitor Threads is seeing higher rates of growth.

Maria Curi, tech policy reporter at Axios, joins Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino for “Tech Bytes: Week in Review.”

Ex-X CEO Linda Yaccarino has lost the blue checkmark next to her account name. Yaccarino did not give a reason for leaving her position on Wednesday. X owner Elon Musk thanked Yaccarino following her announcement.

One name absent from the list is Katie Miller, Musk’s right-hand woman at DOGE, who departed her work in government when Musk left on bad terms with Trump. Miller is the wife of Stephen Miller, a senior advisor to Trump who regularly appears on TV to spout the most vile, racist things about immigrants that you can imagine.

Linda Yaccarino is stepping down as X’s CEO — and leaving the platform once known as Twitter in a worse place than when she started. A day after X users circulated viral screenshots of the company’s Grok chatbot denigrating Jews and declaring itself “MechaHitler,

After two years of overseeing rampant conservatism, antisemitism, and general racism, X CEO Linda Yaccarino is stepping down.

Musk has conducted polls on whether he should sell his Tesla stock or to reinstate President Donald Trump to the platform.