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Fortune
Christiaan Hetzner

X CEO Linda Yaccarino tries to bail Elon Musk out of trouble again, as she labels his expletive-laden rant against advertisers a ‘candid’ exchange

Elon Musk speaks onstage during The New York Times Dealbook Summit 2023 (Credit: Slaven Vlasic—Getty Images for The New York Times)

Linda Yaccarino has become something of a modern-day Sisyphus figure at X in recent months, doomed to push the revenue boulder up a hill only for Elon Musk to knock it back down again.

Just as the X CEO seemed to succeed in luring back a few big-name advertisers to the loss-making social media platform, her company’s owner cost her a reported $75 million in lost sales by endorsing an anti-Semitic conspiracy theory that scared them away again.

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