Thursday, November 30, 2023

Linda Yaccarino May Be ❌ From 🐦 𝕩!

Her days are numbered.

Linda Yaccarino left NBCUniversal to work for the X Group (formerly Twitter). As CEO and co-chairman of the company, her job was to make sure X can survive all the strategic cuts that her boss Elon Musk made when he bought the platform last year.

Her former coworkers at NBCUniversal said she was a nightmare and were happy she left.

Her goal was to ensure investors and advertisers that X was a place where information was shared and information was available.

Did not turn out that way. Her duties as CEO may come to an end soon.

Advertising has all but dried up. Propaganda, porn, misinformation and hate fester on X.

Companies are angry at Musk. His "free speech" has been nothing more than a farce.

He tried to win back Donald J. Trump, it failed. Trump is legally binded to Truth Social, his struggling social media network that he frequently posts on.

Musk allowed extremists back on the platform. Laura Loomer, Eddie Krassenstein, Brian Krassenstein, James O'Keefe, Libs of TikTok and other extremists are back on X.

X has also took a stand to political dissent. The Israeli government is paying millions to make X free of Pro Palestinian content. Musk was warned that Israel will cut its funding from Starlink, a service that allows internet to homes.

Musk wanted to ban Starlink in Ukraine and it was met with outrage from its president Volodymyr Zelenskyy. He wanted to offer it in the Gaza Strip and it was met with outrage from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Israeli president Isaac Herzog.

Musk shares an anti-semitic post and it got Media Matters attention. Now the progressive group monitoring far right propaganda has managed to get over 200 national brands to drop X.

Netanyahu and Musk are threats to democracy.

Musk went on an apology tour by meeting with Israeli leaders and Republican lawmakers. He also threatened a lawsuit on Media Matters. Ironic, he wants to silence free speech of critics.

Musk accused major companies like Disney and The Washington Post of wanting to “blackmail me with advertising,” denouncing them for abandoning his platform and speculating they will “fail” for their decision.

Musk said to advertisers, "Go fuck yourself."

The Hollywood Reporter says that Musk is digging a bigger hole and he is making it harder for Yaccarino to clean up the mess. Yaccarino has hardly been able to improve the perception of X among advertisers; as Musk ramped up his invective, companies like NBCU, Apple and Disney have fled in droves. Even Paris Hilton’s entertainment company suspended its ad campaign on the site, a month after announcing an exclusive partnership with Twitter involving live video and commerce.

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