Linda Yaccarino hasn’t reached boiling point yet.
Yaccarino, the chief executive of X, reportedly sat stone-faced as her boss Elon Musk insulted rather than courted high-profile advertisers that have left the platform.
A chronology of Musk’s remarks are here.
Musk said he sometimes says things he regrets and also that users will be angry if the platform does not survive, after advertisers including Apple
AAPL,
IBM
IBM,
and Walt Disney
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pulled their ads over Musk’s posts as well as the perception the service tolerates antisemitism.
Yaccarino called his interview “wide-ranging and candid” with an “explicit point of view,” but noted that Musk also apologized. At the DealBook event, the self-proclaimed “philosemitic” billionaire called his own post “dumb” and that the point he was trying to make was that Jewish people in supporting immigration end up funding people that seek to kill them.
Yaccarino implied that X still might not be as active in combatting hate speech as corporate advertisers would like.
“X is standing at a unique and amazing intersection of Free Speech and Main Street — and the X community is powerful and is here to welcome you,” the former NBCUniversal executive wrote to advertisers.
Her post also contained the full interview of Musk.