"It’s not out of the question," Elon Musk said back in 2022 when MrBeast asked if he could be the next X (then Twitter) CEO.

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

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,

July 9 (Reuters) - Linda Yaccarino, one of Elon Musk's top deputies as CEO of his X social media site, is exiting the company in a surprise move just months after the platform was acquired by the billionaire's AI startup, xAI.

"I'm incredibly proud of the X team - the historic business turn around," Linda Yaccarino wrote on X.

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.

Maria Curi, tech policy reporter at Axios, joins Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino for “Tech Bytes: Week in Review.”

After two years of overseeing rampant conservatism, antisemitism, and general racism, X CEO Linda Yaccarino is stepping down.