Twitter CEO Elon Musk, left, speaks with Linda Yaccarino on April 18, 2023. Musk announced May 11, 2023 that he was stepping down from the role and a day later named Yaccarino as Twitter’s new CEO.
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X Corp. CEO Linda Yaccarino told CNBC that she has “autonomy” under owner Elon Musk in an interview Thursday, adding that advertisers should be comfortable returning to the platform under her leadership.
Yaccarino pointed to the Tweet announcing her hiring, where Musk underscored his continued control over product and development. Yaccarino added that her role was “everything else” involved in “running the company.”
Brands are “protected from the risk of being next to” potentially toxic content, Yaccarino told CNBC’s Sara Eisen. The X Corp. CEO added that if content is “lawful but awful” it is difficult to remove the content from the platform, but that Twitter’s new content controls would tamp down on advertiser risk.
Yaccarino argued that X was “healthier” than it was a year-ago when it was publicly traded. “You might not agree” with all posts, Yaccarino added.
Questions swirled about Yaccarino’s autonomy under Musk, given his extensive control over the company and his other ventures, including Tesla and SpaceX.
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