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Linda Yaccarino Stepping Down As CEO Of X
Linda Yaccarino is exiting as CEO of X a bit more than two years after her stunning move from NBCUniversal to the Elon Musk-owned social platform.
Linda YaccarinoGetty/Courtesy The former NBCUniversal exec who made headlines two years ago by jumping to X, formerly , after Elon Musk ‘s $44 billion acquisition of the platform, announced her departure in a post. The financial shape of Twitter had never been particularly healthy, but the tumult of Musk’s acquisition, which was preceded by legal battles and then resulted in thousands of job losses and chaos unleashed on the platform, dragged down ad revenue. Musk himself, though he commands an army of more than 200 million followers, has proven a major hurdle to advertisers given his personal trafficking in objectionable content on the platform.
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