Get the latest tech news

Linda Yaccarino Tried to Tame X. Now She’s Out as CEO


Yaccarino announced Wednesday she’s stepping down, and it’s not clear if the platform’s owner, Elon Musk, plans to announce a successor.

Under her leadership, Yaccarino said that X did “critical early work” to make the platform safe for users, and to “restore advertiser confidence.” She pointed to new features like Community Notes, a system for crowdsourcing fact checks of X posts. Grok seemingly began generating the offensive content after Musk claimed on July 4 that the chatbot had been “significantly” improved and that users would “notice a difference” when asking it questions. But even after Musk passed the reins, he remained a central public figure and decision maker at X, as well as the company’s chairman and chief technology officer.

Get the Android app

Or read this on Wired

Read more on:

Photo of CEO

CEO

Photo of Linda Yaccarino

Linda Yaccarino

Related news:

News photo

Linda Yaccarino departs as boss of Musk's X

News photo

Yaccarino Stepping Down as CEO of Musk’s X After Two Years

News photo

X CEO Linda Yaccarino is stepping down after two years