“I literally went to the business world not even knowing being a woman was a thing.”
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Linda Yaccarino
Linda Yaccarino is an American business executive. She served as chief executive officer (CEO) of X Corp from 2023 to 2025 and as chairman of global advertising and partnerships at NBCUniversal from 2011 to 2023. Since 2025, she is the CEO of eMed, a telehealth company.
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business · American business executive (born 1963) · chief executive officer · also Linda Yaccarino, Yaccarino
Born 27 November 1963 · Q115655652
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s generative AI chatbot Grok received a hastily removed update which saw the chatbot used to make racist and antisemitic statements – including praising Adolf Hitler and endorsing a second Holocaust – as well as sexually violent fantasies about various people, including Yaccarino herself. Advertising suspensions and related lawsuits Under Musk
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2026· 2 entries
BusinessMirror: X CEO Linda Yaccarino resigns after two years at the helm of Elon Musk’s social media platform
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2025· 9 entries
New York Post: Former X CEO Linda Yaccarino lands new gig at digital health firm focused on weight loss drugs
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The Hollywood Reporter: Linda Yaccarino Finds New CEO Role at Health Company eMed
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Yahoo: Linda Yaccarino lost her blue checkmark… but now it's back
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CNBC: Linda Yaccarino briefly loses verified X checkmark after stepping down as CEO
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TechCrunch: They took away Linda Yaccarino’s blue check!
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Yahoo: What to know about X CEO Linda Yaccarino resigning after two years
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Inc.: Linda Yaccarino Steps Down as CEO of X
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Yaccarino announced her resignation from X Corp
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“s generative AI chatbot Grok received a hastily removed update which saw the chatbot used to make racist and antisemitic statements – including praising Adolf Hitler and endorsing a second Holocaust – as well as sexually violent fantasies about various people, including Yaccarino herself. Advertising suspensions and related lawsuits Under Musk”
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2023· 6 entries
The Wall Street Journal: Elon Musk Picks NBCU’s Linda Yaccarino to Lead Twitter. Here’s Why
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Snopes rated the claim “Linda Yaccarino, named as Twitter's new CEO in May 2023, has worked with both the World Economic Forum (WEF) and the Biden administration.” True.
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And on the same day, Musk announced that Yaccarino would be the new chief executive officer of Twitter's owner X Corp
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Career landmark: chief executive officer (2023–2025).
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Noting that she had the connections needed to repair X's relationships, but questioned if Musk still "pulled the strings
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Writing that she "seems either unable or unwilling to restrain her boss from his worst impulses while failing to reassure advertisers that all is under control
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2021· 1 entry
To create a COVID-19 vaccination campaign that featured Pope Francis
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2019· 1 entry
With the stated aim to ensure that advertisers' brands weren't "associated with harmful content," for orchestrating an 'illegal' advertisement boycott against X
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2018· 1 entry
President Donald Trump appointed her to the President's Council on Sports, Fitness, and Nutrition
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1963· 1 entry
Born 1963-11-27.
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