New York City, New York Jul 10, 2025 (Issuewire.com) - Linda Yaccarino has left X as the CEO of the social media company. She has left her position in the company right after the chatbot, Grok, pushes the antisemitic tropes to all the responses to users. As of now, the news hasn’t confirmed whether she has stepped down for this particular reason or not. One month prior to this, Musk had also sold X to his artificial intelligence company, xAI. Linda Yaccarino announced the news through a social media post and said that she is ‘immensely grateful’ for ‘entrusting me with the responsibility of protecting free speech, turning the company around, and transforming X into the Everything App’.
She even added ‘Now, the best is yet to come as X enters a new chapter with @xai’. Later in the post, Yaccarino stated ‘I’ll be cheering you all on as you continue to change the world. Right after the post, Musk gave a response to it and said ‘Thank you for your contributions. However, everyone is quite surprised about the exit of Yaccarino. One of the current employees said that they weren’t allowed to speak publicly. They have said that, in the company, everyone is facing various challenges, and that is why she might have quit her job.
X is going through a hard time in advertising and in 2023, Musk lashed out at the advertisers and said ‘go f**k yourself’, which was truly shocking. Amidst all these, one of the employees said, ‘There’s been a lack of clarity, internally and externally as well, of what X is supposed to be’. They even said, ‘If you can’t articulate what our plan is for the next three years’. After Musk took over X, a lot of problems arose in the company. There have also been conversations regarding Yaccarino’s influence on power as a CEO in the company compared to Musk.
The vice president of Emarketer, Jasmine Enberg, said ‘Being the CEO of X was always going to be a tough job, and Yaccarino lasted in the role longer than many expected. She even said, ‘Faced with a mercurial owner who never fully stepped away from the helm and continued to use the platform as his personal megaphone, Yaccarino had to try to run the business while also regularly putting out fires’.
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