X CEO Linda Yaccarino Resigns
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PRIMETIMER on MSNWill MrBeast be the next X CEO? YouTuber reportedly in the running after current executive steps downYouTuber MrBeast is offering his services as the new CEO of social media giant X, formerly Twitter. Responding to a post about the former CEO, Linda Yaccarino’s departure, MrBeast, whose real name is Jimmy Donaldson, wrote,
Linda Yaccarino steps down as CEO of X, Elon Musk’s rebrand of Twitter. Now, internet star and billionaire MrBeast begs for the job in a post on the platform. After serving as the CEO of X since 2023, shortly after Musk’s takeover of Twitter, Yaccarino announced on July 9 that she would step down from her role.
Yaccarino’s departure caps a tumultuous run atop Elon Musk’s social-media platform and comes after the merger of xAI with X.
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,
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.
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The New Republic on MSNX CEO Steps Down After Two Years of Massive FailureAfter two years of overseeing rampant conservatism, antisemitism, and general racism, X CEO Linda Yaccarino is stepping down.
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.
Former NBCU ad exec Linda Yaccarino’s tenure at X may have been fairly short — just two years from start to finish — but she did manage to make an impact on the social network’s ad business, new data from ad intelligence firm Guideline shows. Yaccarino will be leaving X in a better position with its advertisers than she found it, it says.