Linda Yaccarino

Nov. 21, 2023 10:07 am ETX sued Media Matters for America after the left-leaning media watchdog group reported ads appeared near antisemitic and pro-Nazi content on the social-media platform formerly known as Twitter.X alleged in its lawsuit filed in federal court Monday that Media Matters was orchestrating a smear campaign to drive away advertisers. Copyright ©2023Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8 Nov. 21, 2023 10:07 am ETX sued Media Matters for America after the…

US Senate Judiciary Committee has issued subpoenas to the CEOs of three tech companies - Discord, Snap and X (formerly Twitter) - to compel them to testify…

 Linda Yaccarino, the chief executive officer of social media service X, acknowledged that some advertisers are taking a break from the platform following outrage over antisemitic content and commentary, some of it endorsed by the site's owner, Elon Musk.Yaccarino cited “a misleading and manipulated article” for spurring some advertisers to temporarily pause spending, a reference to a Media Matters piece that said ads from big brands were placed near offensive content. She follows Musk in criticizing the report, which…

X CEO Linda Yaccarino called a report from a watchdog group that led to a large-scale advertiser pullout “misleading and manipulated” in a note she sent to X employees on Sunday night.“While some advertisers may have temporarily paused investments because of a misleading article, the data will tell the real story,” Yaccarino wrote in the note, which was by The Hollywood Reporter, and which Engadget has seen a copy of. “Because for all of us who work at X, we’ve been extremely clear about our efforts to combat…

X CEO Linda Yaccarino is fielding texts and direct messages from brand chiefs and marketing leaders who want her to resign from the Elon Musk-owned social media platform “before her reputation is damaged,” according to a Monday report from Axios.  Lou Paskalis, founder and CEO of marketing consultancy AJL Advisory and former head of global media at Bank of America, told Axios that he messaged Yaccarino on Sunday, urging the widely respected marketing executive to leave X Corp.  “The issue is no longer about…

One of X’s key advertisers, Apple, will pause its advertising on the platform, according to a report from Axios. Apple follows in the footsteps of advertisers like IBM and the European Commission, who have suspended ads on X amid increased on-platform antisemitism. Per research from the Center for Countering Digital Hate, X has failed to moderate hate speech on its platform that promotes antisemitic conspiracies, praises Hitler and dehumanizes Muslims and Palestinians. But X isn’t just keeping these posts up; its…

November 17, 2023 @ 2:04 PM Lionsgate Entertainment Corp. is pausing all of its advertising on the Elon Musk-owned X, effective immediately, citing Elon Musk’s “recent antisemitic tweets.” The decision comes just one day after IBM suspended ads on the social media platform, with Apple also reportedly suspending X advertising Friday, according to Axios. Musk has faced intense backlash for promoting and agreeing with a post on X (formerly Twitter), which glorified an antisemitic conspiracy theory. The White House…

For years, some people with the unlucky habit of paying too much attention to Elon Musk have complained the man is a racist. He’s posted countless dog whistles, liked disturbing tweets, and used his platform to boost white nationalists, but he’s always managed to walk right up to the line of plausible deniability. But the body of evidence grows, and this week, for just a moment, the gloves came off.Mr. Tweet Fumbles Super Bowl TweetOn Wednesday, Musk endorsed a tweet that said Jewish communities have been pushing “hatred…

Elon Musk-owned micro-blogging platform X (formerly known as Twitter) has banned 2,37,339 accounts in India in October. Amongst the banned accounts, 2,755 were taken down for promoting terrorism on its platform in the country, the company said in its monthly report.In its monthly report (which is shared in compliance with the new IT Rules, 2021), X said that it received 3,229 complaints from users in India through its grievance redressal mechanisms in the same time frame. Apart from this, X also processed 78 grievances…

Elon Musk said on Friday that monthly users of social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter, reached a "new high" and shared a graph that showed the latest count as over 540 million.Musk's post on X about the user figures comes as the company goes through organisational changes and looks to boost advertising revenue which has dropped in the recent month.It is also the latest in a series of comments from X's executives claiming strong traction in usage, after Meta Platforms launched a direct competing platform called…