Linda Yaccarino: CEO of X talking with CNBC’s Sara Eisen on Aug. tenth, 2023.
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X CEO Linda Yaccarino addressed the express feedback Elon Musk hurled at advertisers throughout what she known as a “wide ranging” and “candid” interview with CNBC’s Andrew Ross Sorkin on the 2023 DealBook Summit in New York Wednesday.
“If somebody’s going to try to blackmail me with advertising? Blackmail me with money? Go f—yourself. Go. F—. Yourself. Is that clear?” X proprietor and CTO Musk mentioned through the interview on Wednesday.
Yaccarino described Musk’s feedback as an “explicit point of view about our position.”
“We’re a platform that allows people to make their own decisions,” Yaccarino wrote on X, previously generally known as Twitter, late Wednesday evening. “And here’s my perspective when it comes to advertising: 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. To our partners who believe in our meaningful work — Thank You.”
Disney, Apple, IBM, Comcast, Warner Bros Discovery, Paramount Global and Lions Gate Entertainment pulled advertisements from X earlier in November after Musk mentioned he agreed with a social media submit accusing “Jewish communities” of pushing “hatred against whites.” His feedback drew condemnation from The White House, which blasted Musk for selling “antisemitic and racist hate.”
During the interview, Musk known as out Disney’s CEO Bob Iger, who additionally spoke at DealBook, and mentioned “Hi Bob!”
Yaccarino was employed as X’s CEO in May. She was beforehand the worldwide promoting chief of NBCUniversal. She has been tasked with bringing advertisers again to X following Musk’s takeover of the corporate in 2022. In August, she mentioned manufacturers have been returning to the platform and will really feel snug putting advertisements.
Musk apologized for his inflammatory feedback on X through the interview and instructed Sorkin {that a} specific submit, the place agreed with an antisemitic conspiracy principle, was “one of the most foolish if not the most foolish thing I’ve ever done on the platform.”
“I’m sorry for that tweet or post,” he mentioned.
X responded to CNBC’s request for remark with an automatic response. Disney, Apple and IBM didn’t instantly reply.
CNBC’s Lora Kolodny contributed to this report.
Disclosure: Comcast owns NBCUniversal, the dad or mum firm of CNBC.
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