The general director of the social network
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The boss of Tesla and SpaceX hired this American media figure six months after buying Twitter for $44 billion.
The value of the platform had fallen to 20 billion over the same period, under the effect of the new owner’s measures – dismissal of two thirds of employees, return of controversial personalities, upheaval of the account authentication system, etc. – which had plunged the confidence of users and advertisers.
“I am deeply grateful to him for entrusting me with the responsibility of defending free speech, turning the company around and turning X into a universal app,” said Linda Yaccarino.
Musk remained in control
Elon Musk, however, has never really ceded control of the social network, which he largely used to campaign for Donald Trump last year, then to denigrate the President of the United States and elected Republican officials, until announcing the launch of his own party this weekend, “America’s Party”.
Most notably, it added Grok, a rival to ChatGPT and a product of its artificial intelligence (AI) startup xAI to the service. The AI assistant regularly sparks new controversies with controversial remarks, particularly racist ones, because its parameters are more flexible than those of other main generative AI models.
xAI merged with X in March in a deal valuing xAI at $80 billion and the social network at $33 billion.
