After two years at the helm, Linda Yaccarino is stepping down from Elon Musk 's social media platform X. The former NBCUniversal advertising sales chief, Musk tapped Yaccarino to replace him as CEO in May of 2023, shortly after he purchased the platform for $44 billion in October 2022.

Linda Yaccarino has announced she is stepping down as CEO of X, one day after the platform was forced to take action to stop its chatbot Grok from praising Hitler and amplifying harmful antisemitic stereotypes.

X's daily user base dropped 10% in the year leading up to Linda Yaccarino exiting as CEO on Wednesday, according to data from Sensor Tower