NBCUniversal veteran may change Elon Musk as Twitter CEO: Report

by Jeremy

Experiences from main media retailers have steered that NBCUniversal’s chair of worldwide promoting and partnerships, Linda Yaccarino, may observe Elon Musk as the subsequent chief govt officer at Twitter.

In accordance with a Could 12 report from Axios citing individuals accustomed to the state of affairs, Yaccarino will go away her place at NBCUniversal, the place she has labored for greater than 11 years. She is reportedly in talks to grow to be the CEO of Twitter.

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

Whoever assumes the important thing management position at Twitter would have a serious affect on worldwide discourse and digital belongings. Yaccarino’s tweets embody 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 govt workforce and phased out the platform’s legacy verification system in favor of varied paid checkmarks. He has additionally impacted the worth of Dogecoin (DOGE) by briefly altering Twitter’s emblem to the memecoin’s canine image and precipitated the worth of Milady nonfungible tokens to surge after tweeting a meme on the NFT.

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