{"id":1930389,"date":"2023-05-13T13:10:22","date_gmt":"2023-05-13T17:10:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/musk-draws-backlash-for-picking-world-economic-forum-leader-supporter-of-content-moderation-to-run-twitter\/"},"modified":"2023-05-13T13:14:30","modified_gmt":"2023-05-13T17:14:30","slug":"musk-draws-backlash-for-picking-world-economic-forum-leader-supporter-of-content-moderation-to-run-twitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/musk-draws-backlash-for-picking-world-economic-forum-leader-supporter-of-content-moderation-to-run-twitter\/","title":{"rendered":"Musk faces criticism for choosing WEF leader, a proponent of content moderation, to head Twitter."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/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%2Fmusk-draws-backlash-for-picking-world-economic-forum-leader-supporter-of-content-moderation-to-run-twitter%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=1930389&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>Elon Musk Taps Linda Yaccarino as New CEO of Twitter<\/h2>\n<p>Twitter users are expressing concern over the appointment of Linda Yaccarino as the new CEO of Twitter, replacing Elon Musk. Yaccarino, who previously served as the chair of global advertising and partnerships at NBCUniversal, has connections to the World Economic Forum and has endorsed content moderation. <\/p>\n<h3>Connections to World Economic Forum<\/h3>\n<p>Yaccarino chairs the Taskforce on Future of Work and sits on the Media, Entertainment and Culture Industry Governors Steering Committee for the World Economic Forum. The organization is known for promoting stakeholder capitalism, which encourages executives to consider the needs of employees, communities, and other parties in addition to shareholders. Musk has criticized the World Economic Forum in the past for trying to control the entire planet.<\/p>\n<h3>Ad Council and COVID Vaccine Campaign<\/h3>\n<p>Yaccarino also served as board chair for the Ad Council, which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/musk-draws-backlash-for-picking-world-economic-forum-leader-supporter-of-content-moderation-to-run-twitter\/\" title=\"Musk faces criticism for choosing WEF leader, a proponent of content moderation, to head Twitter.\">creates public service announcements<\/a> for nonprofits and governments. She partnered with the Biden administration to launch a campaign featuring Pope Francis to promote COVID vaccines.<\/p>\n<h3>No Shadow Bans for Conservatives<\/h3>\n<p>Musk has assured Twitter users that Yaccarino will not institute <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fmr-google-employee-reveals-company-changed-news-algorithm-to-target-president-trump\/\" title=\"Fmr. Google employee reveals company changed news algorithm to target President Trump\">shadow bans<\/a> that frequently targeted conservatives under the previous management of Twitter. However, the phrase \u201cRIP Twitter\u201d trended on the platform after Musk announced her appointment.<\/p>\n<h3>Content Moderation and Advertising<\/h3>\n<p>In an interview with Yaccarino last month, Musk was pressed to amend his own spontaneous use of the platform and contended that advertisers \u201cneed to feel that there is an opportunity for them to influence\u201d the site with respect to \u201ccontent moderation.\u201d Yaccarino and Musk clashed as she asked Musk to reinstitute the \u201cwell populated, much loved influence council\u201d that existed before he purchased the company last year. Musk countered that he would be \u201cworried about creating a backlash among the public\u201d should they believe that \u201ctheir views are being determined\u201d by a handful of elite marketing executives.<\/p>\n<p>Musk acquired Twitter at the end of last year in order to reserve a corner of the public square for open dialogue. He introduced a new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/no-special-treatment-elon-musk-says-he-will-give-nprs-twitter-handle-to-another-company-unless-they-return-to-the-platform\/\" title=\"Elon Musk threatens to give NPR's Twitter handle to another company if they don't return to the platform.\">revenue structure based<\/a> on subscriptions rather than advertisements after a number of companies ended their relationships with the platform at the behest of leftist organizations, dealing a significant blow to the business.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTwitter has had a massive drop in revenue, due to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/elon-musk-axes-twitters-content-curation-team\/\" title=\"Elon Musk Axes Twitter's \"Content Curation Team\"\">activist groups pressuring advertisers<\/a>, even though nothing has changed with content moderation and we did everything we could to appease the activists,\u201d Musk remarked on the platform. \u201cExtremely messed up! They\u2019re trying to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-aclus-interpretation-of-anti-discrimination-would-destroy-free-speech\/\" title=\"The ACLU\u2019s Interpretation Of \u2018Anti-Discrimination\u2019 Would Destroy Free Speech\">destroy free speech<\/a> in America.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Despite concerns, Yaccarino has been confirmed as the new CEO of Twitter, with Musk focusing primarily on product design and technology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk selected advertising executive Linda Yaccarino to replace him as chief executive officer of Twitter, drawing concern as users on the platform notice her connections to the World Economic Forum and her endorsements of content moderation. Yaccarino, who departed from NBCUniversal this week after serving as the company\u2019s chair of global advertising and partnerships<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":1930390,"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":[541],"tags":[6411,5589,7375,5639,3939,13189,4250,26684,4253,12333],"class_list":["post-1930389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-choosing","tag-content","tag-criticism","tag-head","tag-leader","tag-moderation","tag-musk","tag-proponent","tag-twitter","tag-wef"],"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\/1930389","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\/99"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1930389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1930389\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1930390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1930389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1930389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1930389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}