X CEO Linda Yaccarino said she’s stepping down after two bumpy years running Elon Musk’s social media platform.

X CEO Linda Yaccarino on Wednesday announced she is stepping down after leading the platform owned by Elon Musk after two years

Musk tapped Yaccarino to replace him as CEO in 2023, shortly after purchasing the platform, then called Twitter, for $44 billion in October 2022. He said Yaccarino would focus primarily on Twitter's business while he focused on product design and new technology.

Former X CEO Linda Yaccarino's resignation came hours after her boss Elon Musk's AI chatbot, Grok, targeted her in a graphic sexual screed for all to see.

Linda Yaccarino steps down as CEO of X, Elon Musk’s rebrand of Twitter. Now, internet star and billionaire MrBeast begs for the job in a post on the platform. After serving as the CEO of X since 2023, shortly after Musk’s takeover of Twitter, Yaccarino announced on July 9 that she would step down from her role.

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,

X is still the dominant social media platform, but its daily active user base has declined and competitor Threads is seeing higher rates of growth.

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