NBCUniversal veteran will change Elon Musk as Twitter CEO



NBCUniversal’s chair of world promoting and partnerships, Linda Yaccarino, will comply with Elon Musk as the following CEO at Twitter.

Based on a Could 12 tweet from Musk, Yaccarino will depart her place at NBCUniversal, the place she has labored for greater than 11 years. As the following CEO of Twitter, she’s going to “focus totally on enterprise operations,” as Musk handles product design and different expertise.

On Could 11, Musk introduced that he could be stepping down as CEO to grow to be the social media firm’s government chair and chief expertise officer. He didn’t particularly title his substitute, offering no particulars apart from the actual fact she could be a lady and begin inside roughly six weeks.

The important thing management position at Twitter has a significant affect on worldwide discourse and digital property. Yaccarino’s tweets embrace some praising Musk’s appearances in interviews and discussing how the social media platform handles tweets containing hate speech and requires violence. In April, the NBCUniversal veteran interviewed Musk at a Florida convention, the place the 2 mentioned Twitter’s insurance policies.

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Throughout Musk’s time as CEO since taking up the platform in October 2022, he fired key members of the corporate’s government group and phased out the platform’s legacy verification system in favor of assorted paid checkmarks. He has additionally impacted the worth of Dogecoin (DOGE) by briefly altering Twitter’s brand to the memecoin’s canine image and triggered the worth of Milady nonfungible tokens (NFTs) to surge after tweeting a meme of the NFT.

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Replace (Could 12, 4:08 PM UTC): This text has been up to date to incorporate affirmation from Elon Musk  on Linda Yaccarino’s appointment as Twitter CEO.