Tasked with bringing back advertising dollars to a platform whose owner had told brands who did not spend with them to “go f--- themselves”, she was set up to fail.

Linda Yaccarino is stepping down as CEO of X after two years leading Elon Musk’s social media company. Yaccarino’s departure comes one day after the company’s Grok chatbot began pushing antisemitic tropes in responses to users. It’s not clear that the events were connected.