Elon Musk, owner of the X social media platform, claims to have fired the Election Integrity Team appointed under the company's previous leadership.
Elon Musk, Chief Executive Officer of SpaceX and Tesla and owner of X, gestures as he attends the Viva Technology conference dedicated to innovation and startups at the Porte de Versailles Exhibition Centre in Paris, France."And contrary to the comments that were made, there is a robust and growing team at X that is wrapping their arms around election integrity," Yaccarino said at the conference.
X owner Elon Musk, center, speaks with CEO Linda Yaccarino at the POSSIBLE marketing conference in Miami Beach, Florida.X continues to restructure itself following itsThe platform is currently focused on building profitability through subscriptions and paid services. X CEO Linda Yaccarino disputed X owner Elon Musk's claim that he fired the Election Integrity Team just hours after he made the comments."From an operating cashflow perspective, we're just about break-even," the exec said about current profitability at X.
Discussing when the company would shift into the green, Yaccarino said, "Now that I have immersed myself in the business, and we have a good set of eyes on what is predictable, it looks like early [2024]."
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