X Ceo Linda Yaccarino Is Stepping Down After Two Years

Linda Yaccarino is stepping down arsenic CEO of X, apparently effective immediately. She posted nan news, naturally, connected X, saying "I’m immensely grateful to [Elon Musk] for entrusting maine pinch nan work of protecting free speech, turning nan institution around, and transforming X into nan Everything App." She went connected to opportunity that "the historical business move astir we person accomplished together has been thing short of remarkable."

Among nan galore changes that person travel to X since Yaccarino took complete are decreased moderation, a greater reliance connected "community notes" that aren't decently doing what they're intended to do and, astir recently, an AI bot that excels successful trolling and has gotten progressively antisemitic aft its astir caller update.

She's besides been really mad astir a study from a watchdog group that caused a awesome advertiser pullback connected nan level a fewer years ago, claiming someway that companies deciding not to tally ads connected a toxic level amounted to a "free speech" issue. Later successful nan saga, X sued advertisers and companies including Mars, Unilever and CVS Health for an "illegal boycott," different illustration of her staunch committedness to free speech.

AI is simply a large portion of X's quest to go immoderate nan hellhole an "anything app" is, but different large portion of it is X Money, which is supposedly launching successful business pinch Visa later this year.

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