{"id":1930228,"date":"2023-05-13T06:27:26","date_gmt":"2023-05-13T10:27:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/elon-musk-to-hand-over-twitter-to-woke-ceo\/"},"modified":"2023-05-13T06:30:34","modified_gmt":"2023-05-13T10:30:34","slug":"elon-musk-to-hand-over-twitter-to-woke-ceo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/elon-musk-to-hand-over-twitter-to-woke-ceo\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk to give Twitter to &#8216;woke&#8217; CEO."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Felon-musk-to-hand-over-twitter-to-woke-ceo%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1930228&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Former NBCUniversal Advertising Chief Linda Yaccarino Named Twitter&#8217;s New CEO<\/h2>\n<p>Exciting news for Twitter as former NBCUniversal advertising chief Linda Yaccarino has been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sidney-powell-is-an-american-legal-giant\/\" title=\"Sidney Powell Is an American Legal Giant\">named<\/a> the new CEO by current chief executive Elon Musk. Yaccarino is known for modernizing Comcast Corp&#8217;s entertainment and media division&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-asia-czars-holdings-may-present-conflict-of-interest\/\" title=\"Biden Asia Czar\u2019s Holdings May Present Conflict of Interest\">advertising business<\/a> and will focus primarily on business operations while Musk concentrates on product design and new technology.<\/p>\n<h3>Critics of the Hiring Surface<\/h3>\n<p>After it was reported that Yaccarino was in talks to become Twitter&#8217;s CEO, critics of the hiring surfaced, citing &#8220;woke statements&#8221; the executive has made. Yaccarino has advocated for mask-wearing during the coronavirus pandemic and boosting racial diversity in the office. However, industry experts believe that her leadership will immediately turn Twitter&#8217;s trajectory around.<\/p>\n<h3>Yaccarino&#8217;s Impressive Career<\/h3>\n<p>Yaccarino joined NBCU in 2011, after 15 years at Turner Entertainment, and has been credited with taking the network&#8217;s ad sales operation into the digital era. As <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/elon-musk-to-hand-over-twitter-to-woke-ceo\/\" title=\"Elon Musk to give Twitter to 'woke' CEO.\">broadcast television audiences migrated<\/a> to streaming, she took to the stage at Radio City Music Hall last year to tell advertisers their brand messages were not an afterthought. She said NBCUniversal incorporated ads in its Peacock streaming service from the outset.<\/p>\n<h3>Musk&#8217;s Purchase of Twitter<\/h3>\n<p>Musk, the CEO of electric vehicle maker Tesla, completed his purchase of Twitter in October for $44 billion. He said in December that he would step aside as CEO once he found &#8220;someone foolish enough to take the job.&#8221; On Thursday, Musk tweeted that he had found a CEO without naming Yaccarino. One person close to Yaccarino said Musk&#8217;s tweet may well have accelerated the timetable for her to join Twitter, which would be a balm to Tesla shareholders.<\/p>\n<h3>Conclusion<\/h3>\n<p>Yaccarino&#8217;s appointment as Twitter&#8217;s new CEO is a significant move for the company, which has seen a decline in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/florida-state-case-demonstrates-cowardice-is-the-demise-of-higher-education\/\" title=\"Florida State Case Demonstrates: Cowardice Is The Demise Of Higher Education\">ad revenue<\/a> and a loss of staff. With her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/kevin-costner-teams-with-fox-nation-for-yellowstone-tribute\/\" title=\"Kevin Costner Teams With Fox Nation for Yellowstone Tribute\">impressive career<\/a> and innovative nature, Yaccarino is expected to bring credibility to Twitter and restore order to the platform. <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Yaccarino will focus primarily on business operations, while Musk focuses on product design and new technology.<\/li>\n<li>Yaccarino has advocated for mask-wearing during the coronavirus pandemic and boosting racial diversity in the office.<\/li>\n<li>Yaccarino has been credited with taking NBCU&#8217;s ad sales operation into the digital era.<\/li>\n<li>Musk completed his purchase of Twitter in October for $44 billion.<\/li>\n<li>Yaccarino&#8217;s appointment is expected to restore order to Twitter and bring credibility to the platform.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters)\u2014Former NBCUniversal advertising chief Linda Yaccarino will become Twitter&#8217;s new\u00a0CEO, current chief executive Elon\u00a0Musk\u00a0said on Friday in a tweet. &#8220;I am excited to welcome Linda Yaccarino as the new\u00a0CEO\u00a0of Twitter!&#8221;\u00a0Musk\u00a0said. &#8220;@LindaYacc will focus primarily on business operations, while I focus on product design &amp; new technology.&#8221; Yaccarino modernized the Comcast Corp entertainment and media division&#8217;s<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":1930229,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[3850,4249,4250,4253,5558],"class_list":["post-1930228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon","tag-ceo","tag-elon","tag-musk","tag-twitter","tag-woke"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1930228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1930228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1930228\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1930229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1930228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1930228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1930228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}