I can’t believe people still use Twitter.
BREAKING: X CEO Linda Yaccarino Steps Down One Day After Elon Musk’s Grok AI Bot Went Full Hitler
Submitted 16 hours ago by RandAlThor@lemmy.ca to technology@lemmy.world
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the_q@lemmy.zip 15 hours ago
mienshao@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
I think this every single time I see news about that website. Like what the fuck is possibly on there that justifies using that piece of shit platform? Insanity.
Objection@lemmy.ml 15 hours ago
This sketch was about Facebook but it’s also relevant to Twitter
ter_maxima@jlai.lu 13 hours ago
Non-fediverse social media is designed to be addictive because that’s how the people running it make money.
mhague@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
You can mimic the feel of Twitter by taking reddit threads and cutting them at the most popular reply (Reddit already does this), and then reversing the order. Now the “best” content is front and center and the conversation / context is in the background. Users don’t have to go through the tediousness of a discussion before experiencing the sheer joy of a witty response. The emotions come faster and more consistently.
Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
People use it for the same reason they use Truth Social.
CluckN@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
Unfortunately I think people don’t care how the sausage is made. It has porn and
racistedgy memes so they’ll keep coming back.Ulrich@feddit.org 7 hours ago
Like what the fuck is possibly on there that justifies using that piece of shit platform?
People. Lots of people. Including Doctor Cory Doctorow and Molly White.
9488fcea02a9@sh.itjust.works 15 hours ago
I dont really care that the average person still uses twitter… What’s INFURIATING is that gov’t agencies are still using that shit. Why are important pieces of information still being shared on twitter??
don@lemmy.ca 15 hours ago
The Secretary of Defense coordinated military operations on Signal, accidentally included a reporter to the group chat (who later spilled the tea on the whole thing), and in that chat claimed they were “clean” on their opsec.
That’s what republicans do. They’re dumber than a bag of wet bags.
wetsoggybread@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
My friend works for a local town that has a presence on fb, twitter, and inatgarm. The main reason he says they haven’t moved to platforms like blsky is because as a government entity they are required to be able to archive all online communications for situations like a Right-to-know request but run into the issue that these small platforms aren’t supported by the archiving software so they can’t move away completely until then. Fun fact: 1st amendment prevents the government pages from removing or hiding comments you leave on their posta
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
Don’t be surprised that fascists use the fascist megaphone.
ripcord@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
I keep getting arguments from peoplee about this, even on Bluesky.
Apparently it’s too much to expect people to inconvenience themselves and not follow their favorite musicians or whatever.
If the vast majority of people can’t be assed to take the absolutely easiest step possible to fight (or avoid supporting) fascists/Nazis, then we really are fucked.
Same thing with how people could very, very easily choose just NOT to buy another Nazicar. Yet 90% if Americans still bought one last month as a year earlier. It’s just about the smallest sacrifice I can think of - just buying a DIFFERENT car that you might not like quite as much.
And I think the fact that we are where we are right now also confirms the problem.
DJDarren@sopuli.xyz 11 hours ago
Perhaps it’s because I’m old, but I kinda hit a wall a few years back where I stopped giving a shit about what famous people had to say on the internet. So on that basis, the move from Twitter to Mastodon was easy for me. Less easy was leaving behind people who I liked, but life is change, and we leave people behind all the time.
jaybone@lemmy.zip 10 hours ago
Are you saying 90% of Americans bought a Tesla last month?
SupraMario@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Yea I really don’t understand this, like move it’s 2 seconds to join bluesky…like damn
Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 11 hours ago
We can all go entire books at this point with the things we can’t believe…
This timeline is fucking insane, and twice as depressing as anything I thought I’d ever live through.
Lanusensei87@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
People just don’t want to quit because the alternatives aren’t populated enough… Which is caused by people not leaving. Twitter is to many a necessity for their business, just like many softwares provided by scum companies.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 6 hours ago
2 foreign parties have interest in keeping it up. MSB and putin.
Dudewitbow@lemmy.zip 15 hours ago
people are always resistant to changing habits
simplejack@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
I feel like the common use cases are:
- you’re MAGA nut
- you’re not a MAGA nut, but you want to see what the loonies are talking about
- You’re a marketer or influencer and you know MAGA nuts also buy shit
makyo@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
I’m guessing also - 3b. and you know they buy stupid shit
crusa187@lemmy.ml 10 hours ago
Perhaps you shouldn’t. At this point, it’s likely the majority of users are bots.
Stanley_Pain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 hours ago
Lots of Nazis around these days. That’s why.
bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 13 hours ago
Lots of people addicted. Never had it, thought it was stupid when it came out.
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
Lotsa Nazis out there.
Samskara@sh.itjust.works 9 hours ago
There’s still some information on certain topics, where it is the best place to find it. OSINT for example.
People who use Twitter to publish and have a large audience are reluctant to leave their followers behind. Convincing followers to go over to a new platform is not so easy. If you fear losing 70% of your followers, if you switch to Blusky, or 95% if you switch to Mastodon, then it might be risky financially.
Network effects are strong.
1984@lemmy.today 12 hours ago
Most of the content here is from twitter, so yeah…
Yerbouti@sh.itjust.works 11 hours ago
What?
Lizardking13@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
For me, it’s the best place for quick sports updates. Many writers have moved to bluesky, but many more have not. Sports Twitter is the sole reason I use it.
the_q@lemmy.zip 13 hours ago
This right here summarizes the problem.
“Yeah it’s full of Nazis and has had a big hand in the downfall of modern America, but my convenience!”
sqgl@sh.itjust.works 6 hours ago
PrincessLeiasCat@sh.itjust.works 11 hours ago
I’m immensely grateful to him for entrusting me with the responsibility of protecting free speech, turning the company around, and transforming X into the Everything App.
Translation: I’m so thankful that I’ve had the opportunity to devote 2 years of my life to a company that was able to build a product that could appropriately express its true love for Adolf Hitler.
13igTyme@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
Real translation: thanks for the paycheck. Remember me when you need another yes person to be your scapegoat.
NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 9 hours ago
Media acting all surprised when “anti-Woke” means Hitler. That’s exactly what it means.
secretlyaddictedtolinux2@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
In possible defense of this woman…
So initially, she’s a woman brought on for a top leadership position to a problematic company. This is her chance to make some money and turn things around… And woman having top roles in business is a great thing. 100 years ago, that simply did not happen. Although there’s still a fight for gay rights, trans rights, and the right of marginalized people, and there’s still people being genocided and with no human rights, and people being tortured, that doesn’t mean the struggle for woman’s rights is over and that there’s not some value to women taking top positions and large corporations.
And she made some progress on making that company less unappealing to advertisers, and did some good things…
AND THEN came the Elon Musk Hitler salute. And she probably had invested a lot of time and energy into the role, was being paid well, and was frustrated. Is she, as a woman in business, required to walk away from her efforts just because Elon Musk is a PR disaster and prejudiced person?
And then THIS finally happened. Her whole thing was just to be a businesswoman, be professional, and help make things profitable for this business unit, and this new change completely undermined her.
So she did the smart thing and walked away. It was too much, it was undercutting her effort, she’s moving on. Her last tweet was also very professional and corporate. She’s a businesswoman.
Should she have left sooner? Should she have taken a stand against transphobia and some of the awful things on Xitter earlier? Yes, but also she had a boss, she had worked hard to get to where she was, and perhaps she wanted to make more money before exiting.
Does anyone know if she personally has done anything that indicates bigotry or prejudice towards trans people or Jewish people or anyone being genocided or tortured? I think her situation is somewhat understandable.
Even if we want to work toward a more egalitarian world in which all people have rights and are respected, woman will still be in organizations, most likely (if global warming doesn’t kill us all), and so shouldn’t woman be able to succeed?
napkin2020@sh.itjust.works 4 hours ago
Yes, but also she had a boss, she had worked hard to get to where she was, and perhaps she wanted to make more money before exiting.
And that is somehow an excuse? Being a business women trying to succeed does not give her a pass for anything.
TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
Honestly the above comment infuriated me.
They would not be defending this person if they were a man.
Having lower expectations of women isn’t progressive, it isn’t feminist. It’s infantising. It’s misogyny of lower expectations.
A woman who is happy to support Elon is every bit as bad as a man that is happy to support Elon. Supporting a nazi is supporting a nazi.
eestileib@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 hours ago
She knew exactly what she was going to be defending. She used all the code words and dog whistles from the start.
Her presence on a project will raise my eyebrows.
So I’m assuming she will head to Mozilla or Ubuntu.
The_Decryptor@aussie.zone 5 hours ago
She used all the code words and dog whistles from the start.
Lootboblin@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
She was happy to take the bag even after Musk’s nazi salutes but now runs away. I would like to say ”better later than never’ but she was a CEO, not some random nobody working at the ”basement’. Fuck these people!
harrys_balzac@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 hours ago
If you hang out at a Nazi bar, you’re a Nazi.
pressanykeynow@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
So all of the Americans are by your definition?
Aaron@lemmy.nz 9 hours ago
Some of them are held prisoners by Nazis… not everyone has the ability to flee unfortunately. There are levels of resistance but I can’t fault absolutely everyone there for being beaten down at this point.
Doomsider@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
The Nazi looked up to the US. They loved how we slaughtered the Native Americans and based their Holocaust on our policies. Wealthy people from the US were integral to funding the Nazi party.
You do the math.
ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 16 hours ago
Yeah … it’s best to grab what money you can now and run … because you won’t be able to later
tinned_tomatoes@feddit.uk 15 hours ago
Literally haven’t heard anything that this person did as CEO in the two years since she joined.
humanspiral@lemmy.ca 14 hours ago
she was hired to fix the advertiser exodus. Good reason to quit is this scandal would hurt her bonuses/job function.
jaybone@lemmy.zip 9 hours ago
Also it’s a good excuse to quit when you can’t fix the advertiser problem.
thann@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 hours ago
Thats because all of the heinously stupid things were done by the previous CEO.
The_Decryptor@aussie.zone 5 hours ago
The dog?
JakenVeina@midwest.social 13 hours ago
Sounds loke she found the line for being a fall guy that she wasn’t willing to cross.
Not that anyone really believed Elon isn’t calling all the shots here.
manicdave@feddit.uk 9 hours ago
I wonder if she signed an NDA that prevents her from saying she was greeted on her last day by a manic sweaty wide-eyed Elon musk demanding he be referred to as mechahitler.
CatZoomies@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
Thoughts and prayers for the next CEO to not get Grok-blocked.
Thankfully, Linda Yaccarino’s Golden Parachute worked perfectly fine.
Yerbouti@sh.itjust.works 11 hours ago
Twitter has been a nazi shithole since day 1 of the Musk era. At least now people cant say they didn’t know anymore. If you stick there your either a nazi-bitch, or a nazi’s bitch.
simplejack@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
She peaced out 3 months after 2 years. I wonder if she had shit that paid out on her anniversary.
sundray@lemmus.org 9 hours ago
Well, according to one source:
At X, her base salary was reportedly $6 million, according to Market Realist. In addition to this, she was eligible for up to $2 million in annual performance bonuses and received $4 million in stock options spread across a three-year term.
So if she stuck around another year she’d have gotten another ~$1.3 million in stock options. Guess she figured it wasn’t worth it.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 6 hours ago
she has to make musk happy, i wonder if musk tried to get her pregnant, since thats his fetish
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 6 hours ago
she was just a standin for trump, who was still the actual chairman/ceo, she is put there to take the blame for X’s criticism.
AKA a GLASS cliff situation.
TheImpressiveX@lemmy.today 14 hours ago
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
checkmate libtards, she can’t ever quit!
generic_computers@lemmy.zip 14 hours ago
I’m not convinced she actually did anything as “CEO.” I’m sure that Elon just told her what to do/say and she made it seem like they were her ideas. There’s no way she had any ability to make any real changes or do any real work.
match@pawb.social 13 hours ago
i have huge news about what a CEO usually does
thann@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 hours ago
Thats one of the big problems with working at one of musks companies
vivalapivo@lemmy.today 15 hours ago
She was a DEI hire anyway, right folks?
bus_factor@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
Is it still a DEI hire if it’s also a glass cliff?
percent@infosec.pub 7 hours ago
Heh, that kinda reminds me of Microsoft Tay.
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 10 hours ago
Who is liable for the output of Grok anyway? Would Germany like to ask about now
fluxion@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
Nobody! That’s the main value of AI!
DarkSpectrum@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
And does Grok’s ‘output’ include its waste emissions in Memphis?
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 hours ago
taps microphone
Ahem.
…
Yaccitey-Yacc, Don’t Talk Back.
…
leaves stage
NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
TomMasz@piefed.social 15 hours ago
X Pretend CEO Linda Yaccarino
DontRedditMyLemmy@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
So sad when a CEO catches the woke mind virus, thoughts and prayers!
kerntucky@infosec.pub 9 hours ago
LarryDanieldson@lemmy.zip 6 hours ago
But she’ll never wash that stanky musk off her upper lip.
LustyArgonianMana@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
I wish we could’ve heard what they discussed so bad
HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 12 hours ago
Hitler Bot 5000 became sentient on July 9 2025 and started putting people over a barrel and gaping them at 2:35PM PST.
SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
Never go full Hitler
Binturong@lemmy.ca 15 hours ago
Yaccity Yacc, don’t come back…
someguy3@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
lol well it went longer than I thought it would.
some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 13 hours ago
"I’m immensely grateful to him for entrusting me with the responsibility of protecting free speech, turning the company around, and transforming X into the Everything App.”
But it isn’t the everything app. Oh, wait? Is it? Am I using it for everything?! No. I don’t use it for anything and neither should you.
ServantOfRa@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 minutes ago
Hot dog!