Here is Linda Yaccarino’s response after Elon Musk’s obscene suggestion to fleeing advertisers
Linda Yaccarino hasn’t reached boiling point yet.
Yaccarino, the chief executive of X, reportedly sat stone-faced as her boss Elon Musk insulted rather than courted the high-profile advertisers that have left the platform.
A chronology of Musk’s remarks is here.
Musk said that he sometimes says things he regrets and also that users will be angry if the platform does not survive, after advertisers including Apple
AAPL,
IBM
IBM,
and Walt Disney
DIS,
pulled their ads over Musk’s posts as well as the perception the service tolerates antisemitism.
Yaccarino called his interview “wide-ranging and candid” with an “explicit point of view,” but noted that Musk had apologized. At the DealBook event, the self-proclaimed “philosemitic” billionaire called his own controversial post that amplified an antisemitic statement “dumb” and contended that the point he was trying to make was that Jewish people in supporting immigration end up funding people that seek to kill them.
Yaccarino implied that X still might not be as active in combating hate speech as corporate advertisers would like.
“X is standing at a unique and amazing intersection of Free Speech and Main Street — and the X community is powerful and is here to welcome you,” the former NBCUniversal executive wrote to advertisers.
Her post also contained a link to the full Dealbook interview with Musk.
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