Linda Yaccarino is stepping down as X’s CEO – and leaving the platform once known as Twitter in a worse place than when she started.
A day after X users circulated viral screenshots of the company’s Grok chatbot denigrating Jews and declaring itself “MechaHitler,” Yaccarino thanked Elon Musk for “entrusting me with the responsibility of protecting free speech, turning the company around, and transforming X into the Everything App.” She said that the platform started “the critical early work necessary to prioritize the safety of our users-especially children” and that the X Money payment platform would be arriving “soon.”
But in the spirit …