“Parag asked me to leave after letting me know that he wants to take the team in a different direction,” Mr Beykpour said.
Mr Beykpour confirmed his dismissal in a tweet on Thursday, saying it was not “how and when I imagined leaving Twitter, and this wasn’t my decision.” Mr Beykpour is being replaced by Jay Sullivan, the interim general manager of consumer product, the memo noted.
“It’s critical to have the right leaders at the right time,” Mr Agrawal said in the memo.
And it doesn’t seem as if Musk’s promise to let users interrogate her on a future Twitter Spaces session has placated them.The New York Times cites an internal memo on Thursday, saying Kayvon Beykpour, Twitter’s general manager and Bruce Falck, the general manager for revenue were dismissed. On the right, where users had enjoyed Musk’s drift toward the Republican party and mockery of “wokeness,” Yaccarino represents a return to the neoliberal order, which could bring a crackdown on misinformation and extreme content. Those on the left, already sick of his pandering to the right, have little reason to be enthusiastic about his hiring of a corporatist who appears to keep up with all the same cranks, ideologues, and trolls as he does. For now, at least, he’s secured the politically centrist reputation he likes to claim - if only because both sides currently hate him. Linda Yaccarino – Dylan Mulvaney – /ivMFoGkGZR- Stew Peters May 12, 2023Īccording to Musk, Yaccarino won’t assume the CEO position at Twitter for another month and a half, so there’s plenty of time for him to reverse or shift course (as he’s known to do with some frequency). She also follows a popular pro-Trump shitposter who consistently amplifies far-right propaganda.ġ. While it’s not a particularly damning connection to the embattled politician, she also follows a number of right-wing extremists on Twitter, from the anti- LGBTQ account Libs of TikTok and conspiracy theorist Jack Posobiec to attorney Lin Wood - a former Trump lawyer known for his connections to the QAnon movement and pushing the lie that the 2020 election was stolen. Leftists and liberals noted that in 2018, Donald Trump appointed Yaccarino to the President’s Council on Sports, Fitness, and Nutrition. It gave Twitter users some time to dig into her résumé and learn that, yes, she is probably coming aboard due to her expertise in brand safety and commercial partnerships, which could assuage the big businesses that have frozen their ad buys on the platform since Musk’s chaotic takeover.Īlmost immediately, however, most found reason to distrust Yaccarino. Yaccarino, who for 11 years has served as chairman of global advertising at NBCUniversal, was rumored to be Musk’s pick the day before he made the announcement official. Looking forward to working with Linda to transform this platform into X, the everything app. I am excited to welcome Linda Yaccarino as the new CEO of Twitter! will focus primarily on business operations, while I focus on product design & new technology.
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