Elon Musk and X/Twitter's CEO Can't Seem to Agree on Whether Their Election Integrity Team Is 'Gone'

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At a conference on Wednesday, X CEO Linda Yaccarino contradicted Elon Musk’s claims that the platform’s election monitoring team has been eliminated. Yaccarino disputed these claims, saying the team is “growing” and will continue to monitor political misinformation on the platform.

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X CEO Linda Yaccarino had a car-crash interview at Code Conference where she seemed undermined by Elon Musk and couldn't state precise user numbers or whether users will pay

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Linda Yaccarino on the stage at Vox Media's 2023 Code Conference
Linda Yaccarino on the stage at Vox Media's 2023 Code Conference

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Linda Yaccarino denies X is disbanding its election integrity team – hours after Elon Musk posted that they are 'gone'

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Linda Yaccarino at the Code Conference
Linda Yaccarino defended her role as X CEO in an interview at Vox's Code Conference on Wednesday.

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X CEO Linda Yaccarino says she's yet to see Elon Musk in 'demon mode'

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Linda Yaccarino at the Code Conference
Linda Yaccarino defended her role as X CEO in a fractious interview.

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X CEO says the platform could turn a profit next year — and that most top advertisers have returned 'in the past 12 weeks'

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Linda Yaccarino at Vox's Code Conference stage
X CEO says the platform could turn a profit next year — and that most top advertisers have returned 'in the past 12 weeks'

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X CEO slams claims she's CEO in name only as 'not nice;' 'Who wouldn't want Elon Musk sitting by their side running product?'

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Linda Yaccarino, left, will take over from Elon Musk, right, as Twitter's new CEO.
Linda Yaccarino, left, is CEO of X, but Elon Musk, right, has said he runs the engineering side of the company.

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Mark Zuckerberg said Twitter, now X, is less likely to maximize its potential now with Elon Musk behind the wheel

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Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg are just some of the CEOs resorting to pettiness.
Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg.

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Elon Musk Disables Option to Report Misinformation On X/Twitter

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X, formerly called Twitter, disabled its misinformation feature on the platform, effectively removing the option for users to report false election information, research organization Reset.Tech Australia

Linda Yaccarino was blindsided by Elon Musk's tweet announcing he had found a new Twitter CEO, and had to leave a meeting to tell her boss she was joining Twitter

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Linda Yaccarino
Linda Yaccarino was hired as Twitter CEO by Musk earlier this year

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Elon Musk's X is being used as a key 'weapon of mass manipulation' for Russian disinformation, the EU says, and warns it is 'watching' the social network

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Elon Musk took X out of the EU's disinformation code of practice earlier this year

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