Elon Musk Chooses a World Economic Forum Executive As Twitter CEO
(Chaz Anon) Twitter is buzzing with criticism of Elon Musk, who has come under fire for appointing a WEF executive as the new CEO of Twitter.
Twitter’s new incoming CEO, Linda Yaccarino, is a World Economic Forum Executive Chair and NBCUniversal advertising executive, and recently lobbied Musk to commit to self-censorship and urged him to allow advertisers to feel that they can “influence” Twitter.
This is reportedly the new Twitter CEO.
— DiedSuddenly (@DiedSuddenly_) May 12, 2023
Pro- mask, pro-vaxx, and a participant in The World Economic Forum.
Under her Twitter, The #DiedSuddenly film would have never been allowed to see the light of day. @elonmusk if this is true- please reconsider this decision. pic.twitter.com/H9qqjdxH0f
During an April 2023 interview with Musk, Yaccarino told Musk that advertisers “need to feel there’s an opportunity for them to influence what you’re building.”
She then criticized him for not censoring independent media on the platform and urged him to self-censor some of his own non-mainstream views. Musk agreed to try to tweet less after 3 am, when most of his ‘edgier’ tweets are made.
“If I were to say, ‘Yes, you can influence me,’ that would be wrong,” Musk said. “That would be very wrong because that would be a diminishment of freedom of speech.”
The social media business model is based on advertising for baseload income. The major clients are controlled by politically active left wing mega billionaires who want their pound of political flesh. Linda Yaccarino is a specialist in the art of attracting and feeding such… pic.twitter.com/BkiDKmluUL
— The Perimeter (@PerimeterNews) May 12, 2023
Yaccarino sharply disagreed, declaring that “influencing” is “more of an open feedback loop” for advertisers to “help develop Twitter into a place where they will be excited about investing” in areas such as “product development, ad safety, and content moderation.”
Reclaimthenet.org reports: However, Musk continued to push back:
“It’s totally cool to say that you want to have your advertising appear in certain places in Twitter and not in other places but it is not cool to try to say what Twitter will do and if that means losing advertising dollars, we lose it, but freedom of speech is paramount.”
Despite Musk making it clear that he felt it was wrong for advertisers to try and influence Twitter, Yaccarino kept trying to press the point.
She asked Musk to recommit to reinstating an “influence council” that allowed advertisers to have “recurring access” to Twitter leadership.
“I would be wary of that creating a backlash among the public,” Musk warned.
The WEF associated future CEO of Twitter promotes influence peddling for advertisers & content moderation that makes advertisers comfortable. We know what happens when you give corporations and their political puppets power over content. I don’t like this. pic.twitter.com/Hj29KH5vD0
— Kim Dotcom (@KimDotcom) May 12, 2023
Prior to being tapped as the upcoming Twitter CEO, Yaccarino was the Chairman of Global Advertising and Partnerships at NBCUniversal. She has previously served as NBCUniversal’s Chairman of Advertising & Client Partnership and President of Cable Entertainment & Digital Advertising Sales during her almost 12-year tenure with the company.
She also has several ties to the World Economic Forum (WEF), a global group that consistently advocates for the censorship of “misinformation” and supports mass data collection.
In her LinkedIn profile, Yaccarino notes that she’s been a WEF Executive Chair since January 2019. Currently, she’s the Chairman of the WEF’s Taskforce on Future of Work. She also sits on the WEF’s Media, Entertainment, and Culture Industry Governors Steering Committee. Additionally, she is highly engaged with the WEF’s Value in Media initiative. Yaccarino has spoken at the World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting about shaping the future of media, entertainment, and culture.
