Linda Yaccarino said on Wednesday that she would leave her role as CEO of X in a surprise decision, just a few months after Elon Musk’s social media platform was acquired by her startup in AI, XAI.
His departure adds to the turbulence of the sprawling commercial empire of Musk, in particular downwards sales in his company of electric vehicles, Tesla, and controversies linked to the AI. Musk is also involved in a word war with his former ally, American president Donald Trump.
Yaccarino announced that she was going into a post on X, declaring that she was grateful to Musk “to have condemned me the responsibility to protect freedom of expression, to transform the business and to transform X into all application”.
In a response to the CEO position, Musk thanked Yaccarino for his contributions.
In her post, she did not give a specific reason to her decision to leave. Neither she nor the representatives of X responded to requests for comments.
Grok chatbot under fire on anti -Semitic responses
His resignation comes one day after Grok, the Chatbot Ai of X developed by XAI, published anti-Semitic content renting Adolf Hitler on the platform. On Tuesday, Grok suggested that Hitler would be able to fight an alleged “anti-white hatred”, saying that he “would spot the model and manage it decisively”.
The posts were then removed after the public and the Anti-Diffamation League (ADL).
Some people on X noted that the resignation of Yaccarino one day came after use by the anti -Semitic language chatbot.
“Does that have something to do with Grok’s merger yesterday?” A user asked.
Yaccarino, previously president of Global Advertising and Partnerships at Comcast’s Nbcuniversal, may have left “the result of a lack of adjustment between his approach and the style of Elon Musk,” said Gil Luria, analyst at Da Davidson.
“It may have reached a head when the cat integrated Grok began to respond to AI positions increasingly offensive yesterday.”
In March, the Musk AI startup, XAI, acquired the social media platform in an All-Stock agreement of $ 33 billion.
Tesla also faces the exodus exercise
Tesla also deals with an exodus of senior executives. Musk’s confidant in Tesla, Omad AFSHAR and North America HR director Jenna Ferrua, left the company last month, sources told Reuters.
Tesla’s actions have slipped approximately one percent on Yaccarino’s departure, but then recovered lost land.
Yaccarino took the first job in 2023 to help Musk transform Twitter, as he was then called, after having bought it in an agreement of $ 44 billion.
The social media platform is faced with a heavy debt burden, and Yaccarino has often had to face the controversies aroused by Musk, including its approval of anti-Semitic plot theories at the end of 2023.
The company then continued many advertisers and an advertising group, alleging that they had been to deny X Ad Dollars.
Under Yaccarino, X introduced a range of new features aimed at transforming the social media site into “any application” that Musk wanted, including in partnership with Visa to offer direct payment solutions and the launch of a Smart TV application.
The company also explored the deployment of a credit or debit card, said Financial Times last month.
