{"id":349,"date":"2025-07-09T14:52:53","date_gmt":"2025-07-09T14:52:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wakeupknotts.com\/?p=349"},"modified":"2025-07-10T13:51:31","modified_gmt":"2025-07-10T13:51:31","slug":"linda-yaccarino-stepping-down-as-x-ceo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wakeupknotts.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/09\/linda-yaccarino-stepping-down-as-x-ceo\/","title":{"rendered":"Linda Yaccarino stepping down as X CEO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"nxs-video-iframe\" data-frame-src=\"10875591\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\" layout=\"responsive\" 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In late 2023, the X owner lashed out at advertisers who had pulled their spending over a report that the platform was placing ads next to white nationalist content, telling them to \u201cgo f\u2011\u2011\u2011 yourself.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Her departure comes as Musk has sought to combine the social media company with his artificial intelligence (AI) firm xAI. He announced in March that xAI had acquired X in a $45 billion deal.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow, the best is yet to come as X enters a new chapter with @xai,\u201d Yaccarino wrote Wednesday.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cX is truly a digital town square for all voices and the world\u2019s most powerful culture signal,\u201d she added. \u201cWe couldn\u2019t have achieved that without the support of our users, business partners, and the most innovative team in the world. I\u2019ll be cheering you all on as you continue to change the world.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em>Updated at 11:18 a.m. EDT<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>X CEO Linda Yaccarino said Wednesday she is leaving her role at Elon Musk\u2019s social media company after two years.\u00a0 \u201cWhen @elonmusk and I first spoke of his vision for X, I knew it would be the opportunity of a lifetime to carry out the extraordinary mission of this company,\u201d she wrote in a post on the platform.\u00a0 \u201cI\u2019m immensely grateful to him for entrusting me with the responsibility of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":255,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wakeupknotts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wakeupknotts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wakeupknotts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wakeupknotts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wakeupknotts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=349"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wakeupknotts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":351,"href":"https:\/\/wakeupknotts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349\/revisions\/351"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wakeupknotts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wakeupknotts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wakeupknotts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wakeupknotts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}