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THE CEO OF social media platform X, Linda Yaccarino, has announced she is stepping down from her position after two years in the post.
Yaccarino has not stated a reason for her departure, but the announcement came in the wake of a scandal over the platform’s AI bot Grok making antisemitic comments and praising Adolf Hitler.
“After two incredible years, I’ve decided to step down as CEO of X,” Yaccarino wrote on the platform this afternoon.
“When Elon Musk 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.
“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.”
After two incredible years, I’ve decided to step down as CEO of 𝕏.
— Linda Yaccarino (@lindayaX) July 9, 2025
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. I’m immensely grateful to him for entrusting me…
The platform has come under criticism after several posts made by its AI chatbot Grok had to be deleted yesterday after it published antisemitic comments and praised Adolf Hitler.
It said, among other comments, that Adolf Hitler was “best suited” to deal with what it called “vile anti-white hate”.
Developers from Musk’s xAI which facilitate Grok said they were aware of the remarks and were working to remove the posts.
We are aware of recent posts made by Grok and are actively working to remove the inappropriate posts. Since being made aware of the content, xAI has taken action to ban hate speech before Grok posts on X. xAI is training only truth-seeking and thanks to the millions of users on…
— Grok (@grok) July 8, 2025
Yaccarino became CEO in 2023, replacing Elon Musk who had taken the role when he bought the company.
Musk had polled users through his profile in late 2022 about whether he should step down as the head of Twitter. Of 17.5 million votes, 57% said he should.
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The photo doing the rounds of Housing Minister O’Brien socializing with Developers at a FF fund raiser tells us all where priorities are. Photos don’t lie
@Jim O’Sullivan: indeed, it doesn’t make any sense that economists are deriding these new policies!!!….. Are the govt being advised by the dogs on the street? Are they taking any advice from qualified people? Or is it vested interests? ……we deserve better either way
@Jim O’Sullivan: Fianna Fail are the proverbial Leopard.
@another one? what’s going on is the semi state sec:
You better believe they’re taking advice from those with the right qualifications. “It’s a big club” as George Carlin used to say, “and you ain’t in it”
4 billion for housing and feeding Ukrainians though
Is that all, really….nah!?
Sure that’s not far off what the likes of Ronans and McNamaras et al each got away with dumping on the books after the credit crash in 08. They then got paid munzo to manage/massage their NAMA portfolios, bought back in for a song and are since back at the high rollers table with few limits and only token liability!! C’est la guerre…. actuellement!
Whataboutery at it’s finest there.
Slava the BaNAMA Free State!
@: did you think up that all by yourself or did you do some research .. parrot
@: in fairness, now that draft dodging Ukrainian men are coming (40% of 18- 24 year olds arriving are males, the majority of whom would be eligible for the draft) we’ll probably need that four billion. Also, let’s not forget the fund will also provide for those seeking international protection arriving without documents from war torn countries like the UK, Belgium, France, Germany.
@: 4 billion of tax payers money is now whataboutery
@casio shock: not whataboutery that should read
@casio shock: Comparing giving it to developers to justify it is.
@Tomasso San Roque: can you point out the German, French Belgian or UK citizens that have claimed asylum in Ireland?
@Martin Mongan: who said anything about citizens from them countries arriving clown.
@Tomasso San Roque: you did. You specifically listed those countries
And as pictures circulate today of Darragh O Brien cosying up to his big developer buddies at another classic FF golf fundraiser you realise that things really haven’t changed at all since the crash and in the case of FF they never will.
@paulgurney:
Where any/all birdies or better are vultures and all/any worried looking bankers are bogies!
Maybe we could clamp down on the widespread tax evasion by landlords. Large landlords should be tax at a far higher rate. And small cash in hand landlords with every single room in the house split into multiple bed should be find massive amounts. We’ll see how quickly landlords register. Tax is paid and tenants at least get some form of relief….. it’s not tackled because there all at it in the government
@Nathen: stand on your own two feet.
Be interesting to see the comparison of percentage of landlords claiming their tax measure vs renters claiming theirs. I’d say a lot more renters will be furnished leases all of a sudden. This is not a country to be a renter in
Yea true but they had to do something and time will tell if these policys will work. A few million into a state ran construction company and apprenticipe scheme would have been good too
@Dan Danny: how inconsiderate of you towards BAM!
@Kieran Menon: A poor ole BAM is right, will they survive another Christmas
FFG have no interest in housing other than facilitating developers and privately owned foreign investment to gouge us . We pay mor for everything from mortgages to groceries than our so called EU counterparts
There are many people renting without the RTB knowing about it, there are also long term lettings where the landlord forgets to renew the registration after five years. Mentioning RTB when applying to a rental advert is often a sure way to guarantee that someone else will get the place.
Not registering is an all round win for landlords that can pretty much deprive the tenants of all rights because it’s not a proper tenancy. If the landlord dumps properly on the street and changes locks the tenant has nowhere to go.
Another issue is that SUSI when asking a mature student for proof of independent living won’t accept a tenancy agreement, only an RTB letter.
RTB would work better if the tenant did the registering, but it’s a way of extracting money from landlords to pay swivel servants.
Nonsense graph, the ‘wealth’ is not money sitting in the bank, it’s equity people have in their homes after paying mortgages for 15-20 years. Unless you’re willing to become homeless, it’s not available. House valuations now are still lower than 2006, when house buyers had to inflate mortgages borrowed to cover the huge stamp duty being charged at the time.
If they could look at how much it costs to actually build each house and analyse the extortion profit margins that people are gaining from them which is the root of the issue of unfordable houses!
But there is a policy here. It’s to continue to pump more money into demand side measures to ensure that prices continue to go up and up as they can’t countenance a fall in asset prices. The only problem with this is that it can only go on for so long and there will be a fall eventually one way or the other. Property owners have been prioritised over those who don’t own property who have been thrown to the wolves. That’s the calculation that has been made and they are hoping it will be enough to keep the current configuration or something close to it government at the next election.
Assets like a house are not cash in hand but my house is worth 400k and my mortgage is 80k left to pay very hard to feel sorry for most house owners above a certain age, maybe late 40s onwards
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