--- title: "Twitter CEO Keeps Getting Texts From Colleagues Telling Her to Resign" description: "After Elon Musk co-signed antisemitic comments, Twitter CEO has been inundated with messages urging her to quit her job and save herself." date: "2023-11-21" modified: "2023-11-21" authors: - name: "Noor Al-Sibai" job_title: "Senior Staff Writer" link: "https://futurism.com/authors/nooralsibai" url: "https://futurism.com/the-byte/twitter-ceo-colleagues-urge-resignation" categories: - "Future Society" tags: - "elon musk" - "linda yaccarino" - "the digest" - "twitter" --- # Twitter CEO Keeps Getting Texts From Colleagues Telling Her to Resign ![After Elon Musk co-signed antisemitic comments, Twitter CEO has been inundated with messages urging her to quit her job and save herself.]() *\Image: Jerod Harris / Vox via Getty / Futurism\* ## Find a Replacement After X-formerly-Twitter owner Elon Musk cosigned some [awfully antisemitic comments](), the website's punching bag CEO has been inundated with messages from confederates. As [*Axios*]() and [*Forbes*]() have both reported, X CEO Linda Yaccarino's colleagues from the advertising industry have been privately advising her to jump ship to save herself following Musk's latest — and perhaps worst — bigoted outburst that saw him agreeing with Nazi talking points in line with the "[great replacement]()" conspiracy theory that posits that Jews want to "replace" white people by killing them. In an interview with *Axios*, marketing consultant Lou Paskalis, a friend of Yaccarino's, said that he'd sent her a text telling her she should leave the social network "before her reputation is damaged" by Musk's latest debacle. "I think the advertising community is now working to save the reputation of a beloved member of our industry who does not share Elon Musk's views and certainly did not know them when she accepted the role of CEO," Paskalis continued. "If she did, she would not have accepted it." Before joining the sinking ship formerly known as Twitter, Yaccarino worked as an advertising executive at [NBCUniversal for 11 years](), eventually becoming the company's head of global ad sales and clearly making more than a few friends along the way. ## Please Leave Several of those friends, Paskalis told *Axios*, had also urged the X CEO to resign as companies like IBM, Microsoft, Apple and others began [pausing their advertisements]() on the platform en masse in response to [alarming reporting]() from the think tank Media Matters for America — where, in full disclosure, this writer used to work — about their company's sponsored content running astride Nazi content. In response, Musk threatened to issue a "[thermonuclear lawsuit]()" against MMFA for its reporting, which we're sure is not doing anything to assuage the anxiety of the CEO's friends. According to *Forbes*' reporting on the groundswell of concern directed towards Yaccarino, the CEO has thus far resisted her well-wishers, which does seem in accordance with a [post she made]() on the social network suggesting that she's not going anywhere anytime soon. "I believe deeply in our vision, our team, and our community," the CEO tweeted. "I’m also deeply committed to the truth and there is no other team on earth working as hard as the teams at X." Whether she'll continue the weather the storm as the debacle deepens, however, remains to be seen. More on Musk: [*Rabbis Warn That Elon Musk Is Spreading the Type of Antisemitism "That Leads to Massacres”*]() ## Author At Futurism, I've often been drawn to unpacking the narratives that underlie technological, scientific and medical progress, with a special interest in areas of conflict and ambiguity that end up setting agendas and steering the fates of both elites and the hoi polloi. I'm a committed generalist, but I often find myself returning to work involving NASA and the private space sector, the effects of AI on media and society, and the mechanics of the pharmaceutical industry, with a specific focus on the spread of GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy. Prior to Futurism, I worked for publications ranging from Media Matters and Truthdig to Raw Story and Bustle. I'm also the author of "Myspace Scene Queens," a 2024 title in Instar Books' acclaimed "Remember the Internet" series. My work at Futurism has been cited by outlets including the New Yorker, Slate, Nieman Lab, the Verge, the MIT Technology Review, the Sunday Times, and the Daily Beast. I grew up in North Carolina, attended the University of North Carolina at Asheville, and now live in Brooklyn, New York. In my free time, I'm an avid reader and music fan; you can probably find me at a local poetry reading, concert, underground rave, or DJ set. I'm the proud parent of an ineffable orange cat named Mee-Mow. ### Author social links [Bluesky]()