Linda Yaccarino said she is stepping down after two years as CEO ... Yaccarino, 61, did not give a specific reason for her decision to quit. She joined X, then Twitter, in June 2023 from NBCUniversal, where she was a top advertising executive.

Elon Musk ignored hot-button issues including Linda Yaccarino’s departure and Grok’s sudden antisemitic outbursts as xAI presented the latest version of its large language model.

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.

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

Former NBCU ad exec Linda Yaccarino’s tenure at X may have been fairly short — just two years from start to finish — but she did manage to make an impact on the social network’s ad business, new data from ad intelligence firm Guideline shows. Yaccarino will be leaving X in a better position with its advertisers than she found it, it says.

Linda Yaccarino has announced that she is stepping down as the CEO of Elon Musk’s X after two years at the helm of the social media platform, previously known as Twitter.