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Linda Yaccarino announced Wednesday she will resign as chief executive of Elon Musk’s X following a two-year tenure, a day after Musk’s AI chatbot made a series of antisemitic comments on the social media platform and appeared to praise Adolf Hitler.
Yaccarino, 61, joined the social media platform in 2023 months after Musk’s takeover.
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Yaccarino, 61, announced her resignation on X but did not provide a reason for her departure, noting she was “immensely grateful” to Musk for “entrusting me with the responsibility of protecting free speech, turning the company around and transforming X into the Everything App.”
Her departure follows a series of posts Tuesday by Grok, the AI chatbot by Musk’s xAI, which responded to users as “MechaHitler,” praised Hitler and made comments condemned by the Anti-Defamation League as “irresponsible, dangerous and antisemitic,” though Yaccarino did not address Grok’s comments.
Yaccarino applauded X’s “critical early work” to “prioritize the safety of our users” and to “restore advertiser confidence,” as X’s ad revenue is expected to grow in 2025 for the first time in four years, despite likely being just over half ($2.64 billion) of what the company earned in 2021 ($4.46 billion) before Musk bought it.
Earlier this year, Yaccarino claimed 96% of X’s “top advertisers” returned to the platform, after several companies pulled advertising in the months after Musk’s takeover.
This is a developing story and will be updated.