BREAKING: X CEO Linda Yaccarino Steps Down One Day After Elon Musk’s Grok AI Bot Went Full Hitler
X CEO Linda Yaccarino Steps Down One Day After Elon Musk’s Grok AI Bot Went Full Hitler
she was only installed as a lightning rod for Musk for criticism nothing more.
I can't believe people still use Twitter.
I think this every single time I see news about that website. Like what the fuck is possibly on there that justifies using that piece of shit platform? Insanity.
This sketch was about Facebook but it's also relevant to Twitter
Non-fediverse social media is designed to be addictive because that's how the people running it make money.
You can mimic the feel of Twitter by taking reddit threads and cutting them at the most popular reply (Reddit already does this), and then reversing the order. Now the "best" content is front and center and the conversation / context is in the background. Users don't have to go through the tediousness of a discussion before experiencing the sheer joy of a witty response. The emotions come faster and more consistently.
There's just a lot less activity on the alternatives. Especially if you're trying to follow niche interests.
Obviously, I left, but I get how barren it can feel when the latest post about a hobby of yours is 3 days old, instead of 3 minutes.
People use it for the same reason they use Truth Social.
Unfortunately I think people don’t care how the sausage is made. It has porn and racist edgy memes so they’ll keep coming back.
Like what the fuck is possibly on there that justifies using that piece of shit platform?
People. Lots of people. Including Doctor Cory Doctorow and Molly White.
I dont really care that the average person still uses twitter... What's INFURIATING is that gov't agencies are still using that shit. Why are important pieces of information still being shared on twitter??
The Secretary of Defense coordinated military operations on Signal, accidentally included a reporter to the group chat (who later spilled the tea on the whole thing), and in that chat claimed they were "clean" on their opsec.
That's what republicans do. They're dumber than a bag of wet bags.
My friend works for a local town that has a presence on fb, twitter, and inatgarm. The main reason he says they haven't moved to platforms like blsky is because as a government entity they are required to be able to archive all online communications for situations like a Right-to-know request but run into the issue that these small platforms aren't supported by the archiving software so they can't move away completely until then. Fun fact: 1st amendment prevents the government pages from removing or hiding comments you leave on their posta
Don't be surprised that fascists use the fascist megaphone.
I keep getting arguments from peoplee about this, even on Bluesky.
Apparently it's too much to expect people to inconvenience themselves and not follow their favorite musicians or whatever.
If the vast majority of people can't be assed to take the absolutely easiest step possible to fight (or avoid supporting) fascists/Nazis, then we really are fucked.
Same thing with how people could very, very easily choose just NOT to buy another Nazicar. Yet 90% if Americans still bought one last month as a year earlier. It's just about the smallest sacrifice I can think of - just buying a DIFFERENT car that you might not like quite as much.
And I think the fact that we are where we are right now also confirms the problem.
Perhaps it's because I'm old, but I kinda hit a wall a few years back where I stopped giving a shit about what famous people had to say on the internet. So on that basis, the move from Twitter to Mastodon was easy for me. Less easy was leaving behind people who I liked, but life is change, and we leave people behind all the time.
Are you saying 90% of Americans bought a Tesla last month?
Yea I really don't understand this, like move it's 2 seconds to join bluesky...like damn
We can all go entire books at this point with the things we can't believe...
This timeline is fucking insane, and twice as depressing as anything I thought I'd ever live through.
people are always resistant to changing habits
2 foreign parties have interest in keeping it up. MSB and putin.
Lots of people addicted. Never had it, thought it was stupid when it came out.
Lotsa Nazis out there.
Perhaps you shouldn’t. At this point, it’s likely the majority of users are bots.
Lots of Nazis around these days. That's why.
There’s still some information on certain topics, where it is the best place to find it. OSINT for example.
People who use Twitter to publish and have a large audience are reluctant to leave their followers behind. Convincing followers to go over to a new platform is not so easy. If you fear losing 70% of your followers, if you switch to Blusky, or 95% if you switch to Mastodon, then it might be risky financially.
Network effects are strong.
Most of the content here is from twitter, so yeah...
We may not be using twitter but we are discussing content from twitter.
Its a bit depressing actually. There isnt other websites where things happen that would be more interesting to actually talk about...
What?
For me, it's the best place for quick sports updates. Many writers have moved to bluesky, but many more have not. Sports Twitter is the sole reason I use it.
A lot of people in this thread are falling for the classic weasel headline reporting trick of using the word "after" to imply a connection, when there's zero evidence in the article body to suggest it means anything other than two different events happened a day apart.
Exactly. A top executive leaving is rarely a snap decision, especially for companies that aren't publicly traded. I think the more likely explanation is that she joined under the assumption that Musk would let her handle things, and now Musk is wanting to get more involved now that his stint in DOGE is over, and she's not a fan of that. This was probably in the works for a month or two, and only announced today.
I also have no evidence for this, other than an understanding in how executive handoffs usually happen. Given her history at X, I highly doubt Grok would be what pushes her out.
I think she had a discussion with Musk about the AI and didn't like his answer. Escape before she is caught in the shit storm that is coming. Dunno. I don't make enough to speculate what a CEO would do.
"We could be in serious legal trouble."
"Don't worry. My billions will protect me."
In response (or so it seems) to her tweeted resignation, someone managed to get Grok to sexually harass her
That's kinda fucked up
No shit. These are THE bad guys of all time
At this point it's the twitter user doing the sexual harassment right? Because they know how grok is going to respond to something like that
I mean, that's shitty, but there's no way in hell it's the worst thing she's had tweeted to or about her during her tenure. If all the insanity spewing from Grok and X users up to now didn't phase her, I'm guessing she's not bothered by this either.
(Not to say she or any other women deserves to be talked to or about like this. But by now people working at or using X know what they're involved with and have made a choice to be there, so they must be okay with it at some level.)
Media acting all surprised when “anti-Woke” means Hitler. That’s exactly what it means.
No it doesn't. Sometimes it means Stalin.
It's all horseshoes and hand grenades.
God, I hate how this is accurate on both accounts. Fucking dog whistles...
I’m immensely grateful to him for entrusting me with the responsibility of protecting free speech, turning the company around, and transforming X into the Everything App.
Translation: I’m so thankful that I’ve had the opportunity to devote 2 years of my life to a company that was able to build a product that could appropriately express its true love for Adolf Hitler.
Real translation: thanks for the paycheck. Remember me when you need another yes person to be your scapegoat.
Scapegoat? Is anyone actually blaming her for the Hitler shit? I have my beliefs about where those orders came from.
the Everything App
the sheer hubris…
It should be called the Nazi App->#DeleteTwitter
There's no way that Elon let her have any actual autonomy to make decisions for the company. I'm not even convinced Elon didn't just tell her to say that.
Also, assuming those are her own words, she didn't say that she did any of those things, just that she had the "responsibility" to do so. If that was really her responsibility, she epically failed at it.
You work for two years and extract enough money to last multiple lifetimes for you and your children. Then when you work up the courage to quit you put out this absolute tripe of a statement to show other billionaires you're a good little capitalist soldier. "Give me more millions, I'm a soulless greedy fuck like you and nothing is ever enough."
She was happy to take the bag even after Musk’s nazi salutes but now runs away. I wish I could say ”better later than never’ but she was a CEO, not some random nobody working at the ”basement’. Fuck these people!
I hear it's on the 2 year anniversary, meaning she probably waited for some stocks to vest or something like that. It also means her mind was made up before, but that she wanted to maximize her payout because it's never enough for these people. I hate CEOs.
100% agree.
If you hang out at a Nazi bar, you're a Nazi.
So all of the Americans are by your definition?
Some of them are held prisoners by Nazis.. not everyone has the ability to flee unfortunately. There are levels of resistance but I can't fault absolutely everyone there for being beaten down at this point.
The Nazi looked up to the US. They loved how we slaughtered the Native Americans and based their Holocaust on our policies. Wealthy people from the US were integral to funding the Nazi party.
You do the math.
Yeah ... it's best to grab what money you can now and run ... because you won't be able to later
Literally haven't heard anything that this person did as CEO in the two years since she joined.
she was hired to fix the advertiser exodus. Good reason to quit is this scandal would hurt her bonuses/job function.
Also it’s a good excuse to quit when you can’t fix the advertiser problem.
Thats because all of the heinously stupid things were done by the previous CEO.
The dog?
Sounds loke she found the line for being a fall guy that she wasn't willing to cross.
Not that anyone really believed Elon isn't calling all the shots here.
Or this is the fall she was brought in for...
Thoughts and prayers for the next CEO to not get Grok-blocked.
Thankfully, Linda Yaccarino’s Golden Parachute worked perfectly fine.
I honestly think Musk will reserve the CEO position for himself. He's getting more and more power hungry lately. There's no way he's gonna share it with someone. And even if he does appoint a CEO they will just be a rubber stamp.
I thought she was already a rubber stamp
Taking the position himself would rob him of a layer of insulation from public opinion. He'll find himself another rubber stamp, if he can find someone who's sufficiently stupid, greedy, and/or desperate to take the job (and there always is someone). We should start a betting pool on how long that person is going to last before taking the fall for Musk.
She peaced out 3 months after 2 years. I wonder if she had shit that paid out on her anniversary.
Well, according to one source:
At X, her base salary was reportedly $6 million, according to Market Realist. In addition to this, she was eligible for up to $2 million in annual performance bonuses and received $4 million in stock options spread across a three-year term.
So if she stuck around another year she'd have gotten another ~$1.3 million in stock options. Guess she figured it wasn't worth it.
she has to make musk happy, i wonder if musk tried to get her pregnant, since thats his fetish
she was just a standin for trump, who was still the actual chairman/ceo, she is put there to take the blame for X's criticism.
AKA a GLASS cliff situation.
I would imagine she knew full well trying to be the CEO of X/Twitter with Musk so heavily involved was going to be a losing venture as far as her own goals from the jump. But she took the job for the huge pay day and being able to have "CEO" in her list of previous positions on her resume.
I like the theory of the CV, but that thing is a shit stain rather than a valuable experience
Respectfully, this is not how it works up at that level of the machine.
Twitter has been a nazi shithole since day 1 of the Musk era. At least now people cant say they didn't know anymore. If you stick there your either a nazi-bitch, or a nazi's bitch.
I guess you could say she's the...
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checkmate libtards, she can't ever quit!
I'm not convinced she actually did anything as "CEO." I'm sure that Elon just told her what to do/say and she made it seem like they were her ideas. There's no way she had any ability to make any real changes or do any real work.
i have huge news about what a CEO usually does
Thats one of the big problems with working at one of musks companies
She was a DEI hire anyway, right folks?
Is it still a DEI hire if it's also a glass cliff?
X Pretend CEO Linda Yaccarino
I wonder if she signed an NDA that prevents her from saying she was greeted on her last day by a manic sweaty wide-eyed Elon musk demanding he be referred to as mechahitler.
[taps microphone]
...
Ahem.
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Yaccitey-Yacc, Don't Talk Back.
...
[leaves stage]
In possible defense of this woman...
So initially, she's a woman brought on for a top leadership position to a problematic company. This is her chance to make some money and turn things around... And woman having top roles in business is a great thing. 100 years ago, that simply did not happen. Although there's still a fight for gay rights, trans rights, and the right of marginalized people, and there's still people being genocided and with no human rights, and people being tortured, that doesn't mean the struggle for woman's rights is over and that there's not some value to women taking top positions at large corporations.
And she made some progress on making that company less unappealing to advertisers, and did some good things...
AND THEN came the Elon Musk Hitler salute. And she probably had invested a lot of time and energy into the role, was being paid well, and was frustrated. Is she, as a woman in business, required to walk away from her efforts just because Elon Musk is a PR disaster and prejudiced person?
And then THIS finally happened. Her whole thing was just to be a businesswoman, be professional, and help make things profitable for this business unit, and this new AI change (which she almost certainly had nothing to do with and completely sucker punched her out of nowhere) completely undermined her.
So she did the smart thing and walked away. It was too much, it was undercutting her effort, she's moving on. Her last tweet was also very professional and corporate. She's a businesswoman.
Should she have left sooner? Should she have taken a stand against transphobia and some of the awful things on Xitter earlier? Yes, but also she had a boss, she had worked hard to get to where she was, and perhaps she wanted to make more money before exiting.
Does anyone know if she personally has done anything that indicates bigotry or prejudice towards trans people or Jewish people or anyone being genocided or tortured? I think her situation is somewhat understandable.
Even if we want to work toward a more egalitarian world in which all people have rights and are respected, woman will still be in organizations, most likely (if global warming doesn't kill us all), and so shouldn't woman be able to succeed?
Yes, but also she had a boss, she had worked hard to get to where she was, and perhaps she wanted to make more money before exiting.
And that is somehow an excuse? Being a business women trying to succeed does not give her a pass for anything.
Honestly the above comment infuriated me.
They would not be defending this person if they were a man.
Having lower expectations of women isn't progressive, it isn't feminist. It's infantising. It's misogyny of lower expectations. "Oh you can't expect women to understand the difference between right and wrong."
A woman who is happy to support Elon is every bit as bad as a man that is happy to support Elon. Supporting a nazi is supporting a nazi.
She knew exactly what she was going to be defending. She used all the code words and dog whistles from the start.
Her presence on a project will raise my eyebrows.
So I'm assuming she will head to Mozilla or Ubuntu.
She used all the code words and dog whistles from the start.
You talk too much like a bot.
I get that we need to be wary of AI slop, I really do; but If speaking academic English with decent grammar becomes associated with talking "like a bot", then we are cooked.
I'm not sure what's going on here, but I think it's time to set the record straight—my writing style is uniquely mine, and I'd like to defend myself against this notion that I write like a bot—after all, being different isn't something to be ashamed of.
To be honest, my sentences may not always flow as smoothly or effortlessly as some people might expect—but that doesn't mean they're lacking in substance—I'm making sure each word counts. My words are carefully chosen, each one intended to convey a specific idea or emotion—whether it's through humor, empathy, or simply making a point.
I'm not trying to be overly formal or pretentious; I just have my own way of expressing myself—and that's what makes me who I am as a writer—I won't change for anyone. So, no need to worry about writing like a bot—I'll keep on writing in my own voice, thank you very much!
Does anyone know if she personally has done anything that indicates bigotry or prejudice towards trans people or Jewish people or anyone being genocided or tortured?
Getting into bed with the world's most famous bigot doesn't exactly bode well with regard to her moral character.
She's not a smol bean, she's a grown adult who made her own choices. As a businesswoman she should've spotted the glass cliff from a mile away, instead she gave in to greed and willingly walked over the edge because she thought she was the exception. Painting her as a modern-day suffragette seems a bit tone deaf.
good points
Fuck her and her nazi supporting self. She can burn in he'll for staying after the nazi salute.
you're probably right. there's probably no justification for staying given how heinous it is.
I don't care what gender she is. Anyone who accepted that role after Elon took over was just going to be enabling him they should have let twitter fail entirely so everyone can move on to the next thing. Or preferably get off the internet and go outside.
I think it's more likely Musk got a lot more involved across the board after his stint w/ DOGE ended, and she wasn't a fan of that. She joined on the premise that she'd have a lot of autonomy, so that being taken away would make the most sense for her reason to leave.
Who is liable for the output of Grok anyway? Would Germany like to ask about now
And does Grok's 'output' include its waste emissions in Memphis?
Nobody! That's the main value of AI!
So sad when a CEO catches the woke mind virus, thoughts and prayers!
I wish we could've heard what they discussed so bad
"So it never worked?"
"No."
"And been a team of people in Wokeistan this whole time?"
"Angola, but yes."
"And it's been saying this woke crap becuase you've been paying them to? ... Why?"
"Because you're a jackass Elon. And nobody likes you."
Hey, I like him!!
J/k, he's a cunt.
Heh, that kinda reminds me of Microsoft Tay.
But she’ll never wash that stanky musk off her upper lip.
Hitler Bot 5000 became sentient on July 9 2025 and started putting people over a barrel and gaping them at 2:35PM PST.
Yaccity Yacc, don't come back...
lol well it went longer than I thought it would.
"I’m immensely grateful to him for entrusting me with the responsibility of protecting free speech, turning the company around, and transforming X into the Everything App.”
But it isn't the everything app. Oh, wait? Is it? Am I using it for everything?! No. I don't use it for anything and neither should you.
And she didn't protect free speech. And she didn't turn the company around (unless you count the Hitler stuff). So she's taking credit for the Hitler stuff? Because the tone of her statement seems to be, "We did it!!!" Maybe she thinks she's going out on top after her greatest achievement? Much more likely than, "oh noooes we r the bad guyz!?" from the fucking CEO.
Never go full Hitler
Huh? Richest dude on the planet did and nothing bad has happened to him. Sadly, it appears to be 100% ok to go full Hitler anymore.
If only these people would go FULL Hitler and finish themselves off (sooner rather than later).
If she was trying to protect her reputation, that's a bit late. Nothing left to protect.
Feel like she’s more interested in protecting her future earning potential. She wouldn’t have taken the job in the first place if she cared about her reputation, imo.
Holy shit.
It is a Mechanical Turk. Although I guess it's a Mechanical Greek now.
I find it much more shocking he’s got a woman running it.
I'm surprised he didn't have a baby with her.
That is also a possible reason for leaving.
….that we know of. Could have used a surrogate.
What took her so long?
Hot dog!
There are more terrible people that will be happy to take the job
He's going off the rails with drugs. Maybe they should delete his job.
Elon neuralinked into Grok AI, and mechahitler was the result.