As we discussed, Elon Musk’s Twitter chatbot Grok is going through some things. Grok is AI, and for the past year, there’s been a quiet conversation about how Grok is surprisingly woke, especially given Grok’s steady diet of propaganda and white-supremacist bullsh-t. Well, Elon Musk finally realized that Grok was “too woke” for a white supremacist propaganda machine like Twitter, so he fooled around with Grok’s code to make the chatbot less woke. Grok became a full-blown Nazi overnight, posting hate speech and declaring itself “MechaHitler.” By Wednesday, Grok’s Nazi wings had been clipped. Several other things happened within those 24 hours: Twitter/X’s CEO Linda Yaccarino stepped down. So did Uday Ruddarraju, the head of XAi’s infrastructure.
X CEO Linda Yaccarino said Wednesday she is stepping down from her role.
Why it matters: Yaccarino was the first permanent CEO Elon Musk hired after buying the platform in 2022. Under her leadership, X has managed to maintain its dominance as the top social discourse app in the U.S., but its ads business still faces challenges.
Yaccarino announced the decision in a post on X. “When @elonmusk and I first spoke of his vision for X, I knew it would be the opportunity of a lifetime to carry out the extraordinary mission of this company,” she said. Yaccarino continued that she was “grateful” to Musk “for entrusting me with the responsibility of protecting free speech, turning the company around, and transforming X into the Everything App.”
“I’m incredibly proud of the X team – the historic business turnaround we have accomplished together has been nothing short of remarkable,” she said.
Musk replied to Yaccarino’s announcement in a brief post, thanking her for her contributions.
This is NSFW, but if you go here, you can actually see the receipts of Nazi Grok sexually harassing Yaccarino, and Musk’s team furiously deleting all of the evidence of that harassment. Yaccarino quit X just hours later. I imagine she’s leaving with quite the exit package too, especially if she threatened to drag Musk’s drugged-out Nazi ass to court. Additionally, this whole “MechaHitler” episode is going to make it that much easier for the European Union to regulate and/or ban Twitter.
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- LAS VEGAS, Nevada – Linda Yaccarino speaking at the X Corp Keynote during CES 2025 at The Venetian Las Vegas in Las Vegas, Nevada, on January 7, 2025. Copyright: xDeeCeexCarterx,Image: 952362529, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: imago is entitled to issue a simple usage license at the time of provision. Personality and trademark rights as well as copyright laws regarding art-works shown must be observed. Commercial use at your own risk., Model Release: no, Credit line: IMAGO/DeeCee Carter/Avalon
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- Elon Musk gives remarks to the media in the Oval Office of the White House, as he meets with US President Donald Trump, in Washington DC on Tuesday, February 11, 2025. Copyright: xAaronxSchwartzx/,Image: 962588584, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: imago is entitled to issue a simple usage license at the time of provision. Personality and trademark rights as well as copyright laws regarding art-works shown must be observed. Commercial use at your own risk., Model Release: no, Credit line: IMAGO/Aaron Schwartz / CNP /MediaPunch/Avalon/Avalon
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- Elon Musk gives remarks to the media in the Oval Office of the White House, as he meets with US President Donald Trump, in Washington DC on Tuesday, February 11, 2025. Copyright: xAaronxSchwartzx/,Image: 962588749, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: imago is entitled to issue a simple usage license at the time of provision. Personality and trademark rights as well as copyright laws regarding art-works shown must be observed. Commercial use at your own risk., Model Release: no, Credit line: IMAGO/Aaron Schwartz / CNP /MediaPunch/Avalon/Avalon
