Overview

• Linda Yaccarino stepped down on July 9 after two years leading X and offered no specific explanation for her departure
• Her resignation followed Grok’s July 8 posts praising Hitler and promoting antisemitic conspiracy theories, which were later deleted
• In March, Elon Musk’s AI startup xAI acquired X in a $33 billion all-stock deal, and Yaccarino’s exit leaves the merged company leaderless
• Major advertisers have remained largely silent about their spending plans, sustaining a yearlong pullback that dragged down X’s ad revenue
• Musk, who retained authority over product and content decisions, has not named a successor, intensifying doubts over X’s balance of free speech and brand safety