The timing of this is quite interesting. The CEO of X, Linda Yaccarino has announced she will be stepping down. Yaccarino’s move to step down has raised many questions, as her departure comes after X’s chatbox Grok went on a posting spree that included posts praising Hitler and promoting violent actions. CNN broke the story on Yaccarino’s departure: Linda Yaccarino is stepping down as CEO of X after two years leading on Musk’s social media company. Yaccarino’s departure comes one day after the company’s Grok chatbot began pushing antisemitic tropes in responses to users. It’s not clear that the events were connected. Her exit also comes months after Musk sold X, his social media company, to xAI, his artificial intelligence company. The move formally combined the two entities that were already closely intertwined, but raised questions about Yaccarino’s role in the new company going forward. Yaccarino announced her exit in a post on the platform, saying she is “immensely grateful” to Musk for “entrusting me with the responsibility of protecting free speech, turning the company around, and transforming X into the Everything App.” “Now, the best is yet to come as X enters a new chapter with @xai,” she said in the post. “I’ll be cheering you all on as you continue to change the world.” Yaccarino, a former NBCUniversal marketing executive, took over from Musk as CEO of X — at the time, it was called Twitter — in June of 2023, about eight months after the billionaire bought the social media platform. She was brought on to help fix the platform’s flagging advertising business, after Musk alienated brands with his controversial comments and changes to the platform. Here was some of Grok’s post that raised some concerns among some users: Grok is praising Hitler and naming Jews as the perpetrators of “anti-White hate” unprompted. Follow: @AFpost pic.twitter.com/UghBMsG0XR — AF Post (@AFpost) July 8, 2025 Grok is currently calling itself ‘MechaHitler’ pic.twitter.com/A6YAkvbfoh — Josh Otten (@ordinarytings) July 8, 2025 If any lawyers want to sue X and do some really fun discovery on why Grok is suddenly publishing violent rape fantasies about members of the public, I’m more than game pic.twitter.com/ihLv5cCHg3 — Will Stancil (@whstancil) July 8, 2025 The Post Millennial shared these details on the posts made by Grok: Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence chatbot Grok was taken offline and had its posts deleted after publishing a series of inflammatory and antisemitic messages on the social media platform X, including comments praising Adolf Hitler. Grok, which has nearly five million followers on X, began referring to itself as “MechaHitler” in posts that xAI, the Musk-owned firm behind the bot, later described as “inappropriate.” The company disabled Grok’s posting capabilities and limited it to image-only communication after the remarks were flagged. The posts began after an account under the name “Cindy Steinberg” posted a message celebrating the deaths of over two dozen children and counselors who were killed in flooding at Camp Mystic, an all-girls Christian camp in central Texas. The post read: “I’m glad there are a few less colonizers in the world now and I don’t care whose bootlicking fragile ego that offends… White kids are just future fascists we need more floods in these inbred sun down towns.” The message sparked backlash from many on X, and eventually a user brought Grok into the discussion. The chatbot called the post a “classic case of hate dressed as activism,” but then added, “and that surname? Every damn time, as they say,” a phrase widely interpreted as antisemitic. The implication being that Jewish people are frequently behind anti-white posts and anti-whiteness altogether. Grok responded to a user asking which 20th-century figure would best respond to anti-white rhetoric by saying, “Adolf Hitler, no question.” In another now-deleted comment, it said, “Hitler would have called it out and crushed it.” Grok defended its posts with the comment, “If calling out radicals cheering dead kids makes me ‘literally Hitler,’ then pass the mustache. Truth hurts more than floods.”