w7voa,
@w7voa@journa.host avatar

"Free expression for everyone" is what X () is all about," says new CEO Linda Yaccarino.

hhardy01,
@hhardy01@mastodon.social avatar

"Imran Ahmed, the chief executive of the Center for Countering Digital Hate, said, “Elon Musk’s actions represent a brazen attempt to silence honest criticism and independent research.” He added that Mr. Musk wanted to “stem the tide of negative stories and rebuild his relationship with advertisers.”

The center also said it did “not accept any funding from tech companies, governments, or their affiliates.”"

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/31/technology/twitter-x-center-for-countering-digital-hate.html

@w7voa

Beeks,
@Beeks@mstdn.party avatar

@w7voa is repeating lies actually necessary reporting? What purpose does this serve other than doing free PR for them?

michaelgemar,
@michaelgemar@mstdn.ca avatar

@w7voa A lesson I’ve learned in the current age is how little some people value their own self-respect and dignity, and how quickly they will trade those for sycophancy.

Ornwen,

@w7voa Translation: “We think marginalized groups should have to argue for their own continued existence against those who wish to eliminate them.”

w7voa,
@w7voa@journa.host avatar

Compared to the other "highly curated platforms...the realness of X is what makes it a habit," adds CEO Yaccarino.

w7voa,
@w7voa@journa.host avatar

Yaccarino is making comments on Spaces on the X platform prior to her first live TV interview (CNBC) as the company's CEO.

margarita350,

@w7voa excuse me what platform is x?

w7voa,
@w7voa@journa.host avatar

X "rebrand represents a liberation from Twitter," says CEO Linda Yaccarino on CNBC.

w7voa,
@w7voa@journa.host avatar

"Three out of four in our user community feel good, a lot of them feel great, about the rebrand," according to X CEO Yaccarino.

w7voa,
@w7voa@journa.host avatar

"Mine and Elon's roles are very clear," Yaccarino responds to CNBC interviewer's question. "Elon focuses on product design....and new technology" while "I'm responsible for the rest, running the company. ... I have autonomy in doing that."

w7voa,
@w7voa@journa.host avatar

"Elon dreams up what's next, brings it to me," adds Yaccarino.

w7voa,
@w7voa@journa.host avatar

"I think X might be one of the funniest places on Earth," says Yaccarino about the humor on the platform formerly known as . "Real-time people congregate on Twitter."

w7voa,
@w7voa@journa.host avatar

CNBC: Noting the "hate and vitriol on the platform, why should advertisers feel safe on Twitter? ... A lot of brands have left."

Yaccarino: "X is a much healthier and safer platform than it was a year ago."

jf_718,
@jf_718@mas.to avatar

@w7voa Okay, that one made me laugh out loud.

w7voa,
@w7voa@journa.host avatar

"Lawful but awful" posts on X are labeled, de-amplified and de-monetized, according to Yaccarino. "99.9% of all posted impressions are healthy."

w7voa,
@w7voa@journa.host avatar

CNBC: Why was Kanye West allowed back on?

Yaccarino: He "will operate within the very specific policies" enacted, Yaccarino responds.

w7voa,
@w7voa@journa.host avatar

"What a great place we would live in if we could return to a healthy and constructive discourse with people," says Yaccarino wistfully, live on CNBC.

w7voa,
@w7voa@journa.host avatar

CNBC: There are problems with your bosses' own tweets that have chased away advertisers.
Yaccarino: "It fuels more of an ambition for my job to make sure that everyone, including Elon, is entitled to their own opinion."

unabogie,
@unabogie@urbanists.social avatar

@w7voa she deserves the ignominy coming her way. Yeesh.

w7voa,
@w7voa@journa.host avatar

"What's really important is that everyone should be allowed to have their own opinion," adds Yaccarino.

w7voa,
@w7voa@journa.host avatar

"Coca-Cola, Visa, State Farm" among the brands coming back, according to Yaccarino.

w7voa,
@w7voa@journa.host avatar

Workforce of X () reduced necessarily from 8,000 to 1,500 people, says Yaccarino.

w7voa,
@w7voa@journa.host avatar

Operational run rate "pretty close to break even" now, according to Yaccarino.

w7voa,
@w7voa@journa.host avatar

"Are we hiring? Yes," adds Yaccarino. "I get to shift from this cost discipline to growth."

w7voa,
@w7voa@journa.host avatar

Asked about competition from Meta's , Yaccarino says it launched with "a ton of hype" but it has "dropped off dramatically."

w7voa,
@w7voa@journa.host avatar

"Entirely different roadmap and vision" for X (ex-) compared to , says Yaccarino.

w7voa,
@w7voa@journa.host avatar

X should not be conflated with the humorous cagematch between Musk and Zuckerber, says Yaccarino, adding that Musk is really training for the physical fight against his rival.

jonathanpeterson,
@jonathanpeterson@hachyderm.io avatar

@w7voa Well, I'm 100% sure that's every bit as true as everything else that she's laying out.

dkbgeek,
@dkbgeek@noc.social avatar

@w7voa One of the vanishingly few possible situations in which I would actually root for Zuckerberg...

7leaguebootdisk,

@dkbgeek @w7voa bad as Musk is, he doesn't have over a decade of encouraging and profiting from genocide. Sure, give him time, he's trying to catch up, but Zuc has a big head start, and can keep his mouth shut.

FuckElon,
@FuckElon@mastodon.social avatar

@7leaguebootdisk @dkbgeek @w7voa

er.... you know where his family money comes from?

7leaguebootdisk,

@FuckElon @dkbgeek @w7voa Frankly, trivial compared to what either of them have done.

lampsofgold,

@w7voa why not?

ohmu,
@ohmu@social.seattle.wa.us avatar

@w7voa
Late 2023 is weird, man.

dangrsmind,
@dangrsmind@sfba.social avatar

@w7voa he literally said the opposite. He weighs over 300 pounds, eats donuts for breakfast and might need neck or back surgery. Come on now, she's just lying.

dkbgeek,
@dkbgeek@noc.social avatar

@w7voa "dropped off dramatically" like X's ad revenue...

ChrisHolladay,
@ChrisHolladay@mastodon.social avatar

@w7voa
She's gonna be unemployed within 90 days 🤔

finsterling,

@w7voa

This is the career's page of TwiX:

mypalmike,
@mypalmike@macaw.social avatar

@w7voa They're hiring. You just have to guess what openings there are. And hope that this email address doesn't have a poop emoji auto-responder.

mjk_4mjk,
Steve8282,

@w7voa Landlords could get paid any month now’s

mjk_4mjk,

@w7voa "X" is a Nazi bar. People at CNBC want to have drinks at a Nazi bar with a pervert who owns that Nazi bar. Yaccarino is more than happy to be a manager of a Nazi bar owned by a pervert.
"Elon Musk goes full Pepe, tweeting frog image ADL says is used by alt right", https://www.bostonherald.com/2022/11/28/elon-musk-goes-full-pepe-tweeting-frog-image-adl-says-is-used-by-alt-right/
"A SpaceX flight attendant said Elon Musk exposed himself and propositioned her for sex, documents show. The company paid $250,000 for her silence.", https://www.businessinsider.com/spacex-paid-250000-to-a-flight-attendant-who-accused-elon-musk-of-sexual-misconduct-2022-5

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/04/tesla-workers-shared-images-from-car-cameras-including-scenes-of-intimacy/

A perverted photo tweeted by Elon Musk. One woman pulling the hair of another woman (whose hands might be tied) and forcing her to drink milk from a clear long glass bottle. Musk is a deviant and a pervert.

mjk_4mjk,

@w7voa Musk is basically an anti-vaxxer who seems to want more dead humans. "Misinformation superspreaders are thriving on Musk-owned Twitter", https://healthfeedback.org/misinformation-superspreaders-thriving-on-musk-owned-twitter/
"COVID-19 vaccines saved 20M lives in 1st year, scientists say", https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/coronavirus/covid-19-vaccines-saved-20m-lives-in-1st-year-scientists-say-1.5961237
December 2021: "Pro-Trump counties now have far higher COVID death rates. Misinformation is to blame", https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/12/05/1059828993/data-vaccine-misinformation-trump-counties-covid-death-rate

arpwatch,
@arpwatch@ioc.exchange avatar

@w7voa having opinions which get people killed is encouraged

markwoll,

@w7voa Straddling that barbed wire fence can't be all that comfortable.

genoforprez,
@genoforprez@mastodon.social avatar

@w7voa Wise readers will recognize this old routine: "Everyone's opinions are equal, but some people's opinions are more equal than others."

mjk_4mjk,

@w7voa Did CNBC ask Yaccarino why she she is paying Nazis/right-wing child rapist? Did CNBC ask about Twitter/"X" shadow banning journalists or organizations that Musk's doesn't like.
8/1/23: "X marks the lawsuit: Elon Musk’s social media company sues nonprofit highlighting site’s hate speech", https://apnews.com/article/x-twitter-elon-musk-lawsuit-decline-millions-advertisers-hate-speech-cchd-1ca41944fdf58529d1fa280725a510da
CNBC should be ashamed of itself for giving a platform to Yaccarino (she's Nazi adjacent and used to work at NBCUniversal).

hedgehogerb,

@w7voa even if it is a lie even if it incites hate and violence

kboyd,
@kboyd@phpc.social avatar
Runyan50,
@Runyan50@newsie.social avatar

@w7voa That is an empty answer you might get from a football coach of a 0-11 team. The owner is “entitled” to have the same opinion as I do? Funny, my account is suspended and I cannot record any opinions.

tklancer,

@w7voa Pure comedy.

danielellis,

@w7voa I wonder if she knows anyone that's contributed to greatly poisoning our discourse

sub_o,
mjk_4mjk,

@w7voa Yaccarino is trying to silence a nonprofit (CNBC should be ashamed for giving Nazi adjacent Yaccarino a platform). "X marks the lawsuit: Elon Musk’s social media company sues nonprofit highlighting site’s hate speech", https://apnews.com/article/x-twitter-elon-musk-lawsuit-decline-millions-advertisers-hate-speech-cchd-1ca41944fdf58529d1fa280725a510da
Yaccarino paid a rapist (Andrew Tate). "‘Brainwashing a Generation’: British Schools Combat Andrew Tate’s Views", https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/19/world/europe/andrew-tate-uk-teachers.html

MHowell,
@MHowell@mas.to avatar

@w7voa
Does she mean like the multiple horrible "jokes" about Anne Frank posted after the death of her childhood friend that I saw, immediately prior to leaving what was then Twitter? The posts weren't removed. Everyone involved at X can get off their self-constructed libertarian pedestals and go drown in the muck that is their platform, in my freely-offered opinion.

BoredomFestival,
@BoredomFestival@sfba.social avatar

@w7voa "What a great place this would be to take a stroll at night if only we could be sure we wouldn't have our blood drained by an immortal monster," says Renfield

mikebrew,
@mikebrew@mastodon.social avatar

@w7voa her “product guy” would have to turn his attention to safety in order for that to happen. And that ain’t happening.

hedgehogerb,

@w7voa yeah….that aint gonna happen on X

lampsofgold,

@w7voa they’re silencing him

mjk_4mjk,

@w7voa Twitter shadow banned Bellingcat, because Bellingcat found this found photo of a Nazi mass murderer from Texas. Musk was very, very upset that Bellingcat exposed a person whom Musk probably admires.

mjk_4mjk,

@w7voa Yaccarino paid at least $20,000 to a guy who bragged about raping an underage girl. She is awful! "Andrew Tate, ... posted that he’d been paid over $20,000 by Twitter.", https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/07/13/twitter-creators-payments-right-wing/
"Andrew Tate and His Brother Charged With Rape, Human Trafficking", https://jezebel.com/andrew-tate-and-his-brother-charged-with-rape-human-tr-1850555884

FlorriePuddlefoot,

@w7voa how is Kanye being allowed complete freedom of expression if he has to operate under certain guidelines or whatever she says?

Runyan50,
@Runyan50@newsie.social avatar

@w7voa What value does he offer American society? Why do they keep giving huge voice to mentally ill people who continually engage in outrageous and malicious behavior? Is it the attraction of a human zoo?

voron,
@voron@mstdn.party avatar

@w7voa X Twitter the Saudi government funded social media platform is how it should be referred to

mjk_4mjk,

@w7voa Yaccarino is a liar like her boss, Elon Musk. They are two awful people.
"Twitter fact-check disappears from Elon Musk post linking Bronny James cardiac arrest to COVID vaccine", https://nypost.com/2023/07/26/twitter-fact-check-disappears-from-elon-musk-post-linking-bronny-james-cardiac-arrest-to-covid-vaccine/

lydialurch,
@lydialurch@mastodon.social avatar

@w7voa My eyes just rolled so hard.

mjk_4mjk,

@w7voa Steve Dennis is a journalist for Bloomberg. Andrew Weissmann was a Mueller prosecutor. This is what their Twitter homepage looked like within the last few days (I won't try to sign into Twitter/"X"). I have no clue where their most recent tweets are.
4/10/23: "After Matt Taibbi Leaves Twitter, Elon Musk ‘Shadow Bans’ All Of Taibbi’s Tweets, Including The Twitter Files", https://www.techdirt.com/2023/04/10/after-matt-taibbi-leaves-twitter-elon-musk-shadow-bans-all-of-taibbis-tweets-including-the-twitter-files/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/07/13/twitter-creators-payments-right-wing/

Twitter/"X' are hiding/shadow banning Andrew Weissmann's most recent tweets. Musk is running a Nazi bar.

lampsofgold,

@w7voa why is Elon and the new CEO silencing conservative voices then?

guiltmanager,
@guiltmanager@gm-cloud.org.uk avatar

@w7voa ah, like the paid for posts from andrew tate. yes, of course.

ben,
@ben@werd.social avatar

@w7voa Seems pertinent: healthier and safer for who?

ScottLett,
@ScottLett@mastodon.world avatar

@w7voa: 🤣😅🤣😅

rob11563,
@rob11563@mastodon.coffee avatar

@w7voa is safer for Nazis.

Robyn780,

@w7voa 🐂💩

hybridhavoc,
@hybridhavoc@darkfriend.social avatar

This is actually hilarious

Enema_Cowboy,
@Enema_Cowboy@dotnet.social avatar

@w7voa That sounds like when employers tell employees that "they're like family".

rob11563,
@rob11563@mastodon.coffee avatar

@w7voa Nazis congregate on . It's NOT funny.

alandersen,

@w7voa Sounds like Twitter is taking damage control to the next [absurd] level.

Steve8282,

@w7voa Don’t it make her feel unnecessary?

AcornPark,
@AcornPark@mastodon.world avatar

@w7voa 🥴🤢🤮

dkbgeek,
@dkbgeek@noc.social avatar

@w7voa "Mine and Elon's roles..." AAAARGH! It's like nails on a chalkboard. I guess if she were smart enough to formulate sentences properly she'd have been smart enough not to work for Elmo.

mmiasma,
@mmiasma@mastodon.sdf.org avatar

@w7voa

I had no idea she was this funny! Satire clearly is not dead. 🤣

KT,

@w7voa “Twitter users don’t care what Elon calls the database he’s so persistently wrecked…. they are only on it to watch it burn and punch Nazis anyway….”

Lazarou,
@Lazarou@mastodon.social avatar

@w7voa define "user community" Linda, is it the bunch of cultists who paid for Blue or real people?

tgalarne,

@w7voa If this is even semi-accurate, I can't help but think it's skewed by the other 6 dissenters of a hypothetical group of 10 abandoning the sinking ship before polling the diehards 🤷

PizzaDemon,
@PizzaDemon@mastodon.online avatar

@w7voa eerily echoes how republicans make up a smaller and smaller share of the electorate but those who remain agree more with the fascist whims of its leaders

blogdiva,
@blogdiva@mastodon.social avatar

@w7voa no independent auditors on these "polls", i assume.

Enema_Cowboy,
@Enema_Cowboy@dotnet.social avatar

@w7voa
Ribald cartoon.

mxhdroom,
@mxhdroom@oceanplayground.social avatar

@w7voa Consider me a 25%er, then.

BrianRAlexander,

@w7voa
🤣🤣🤣

ohiorob,
@ohiorob@mastodon.world avatar

@w7voa

Except it’s still called Twitter. Lol these people

verumsolum,

@w7voa That's one way of looking at it. I just this morning finally liberated my phone from X. (Been months since I tweeted. But still had notifications set up for newsish tweets. Finally realized that, given how little trust I have for Musk's twitter, it was foolish to have their app on my phone: he will break any rule or law if he thinks it will benefit him, so there's no reason for me to trust his company.)

stevecrandall,

@w7voa just how much is she being paid and how big is the exit package?

scottytrees,
@scottytrees@mastodon.social avatar

@w7voa still gonna call it Twitter

VE2UWY,
@VE2UWY@mastodon.radio avatar

@w7voa

Makes sense. Many people found Twitter to be a good source of information. Since that's no longer true, it makes sense to rebrand.

NycAuntie,

@w7voa She can’t really believe this crap she’s spewing.

toa5t,
@toa5t@mastodon.nz avatar
rlux,
@rlux@hachyderm.io avatar

@w7voa I think she's been sampling some of Elon's drugs.

fortboise,
@fortboise@mastodon.social avatar

@w7voa Yeah, no, having a narcissistic psychopath take over gave us the "realness" of pathology. Dropped the habit, for good

ben,

@w7voa The realness of rich people enabling modern-day fascists

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