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Springfield, MO
Linda Yaccarino is stepping down as CEO of X after two years leading Elon Musk’s social media company.
Yaccarino’s departure comes one day after the company’s Grok chatbot began pushing antisemitic tropes in responses to users. It’s not clear that the events were connected.
Her exit also comes months after Musk sold X, his social media company, to xAI, his artificial intelligence company. The move formally combined the two entities that were already closely intertwined, but raised questions about Yaccarino’s role in the new company going forward.
Yaccarino, a former NBCUniversal marketing executive, took over from Musk as CEO of X – at the time, it was called Twitter – in June of 2023, about eight months after the billionaire bought the social media platform.
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