Posted on 05/13/2023 12:41:05 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Future Twitter CEO Linda Yaccarino advocated for content moderation and censorship on behalf of advertisers while Musk defended importance of free speech.
Twitter CEO Elon Musk joined a marketing convention last month to talk with NBC Universal’s Linda Yaccarino about the future of marketing at Twitter.
Musk, who announced this week that Yaccarino would take over as Twitter CEO, had sparred with her in an on-stage interview during the POSSIBLE Miami: Marketing Conference & Expo over free speech and content moderation.
In one exchange, Yaccarino asked Musk how far he’d be willing to go to let advertisers “influence” how Twitter curates content, claiming their investments would help “product development, ad safety, content moderation — that’s what the influence is.”
Musk, however, shut her down.
“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 to try to say what Twitter will do,” he said. “And if that means losing advertising dollars, we lose it. But freedom of speech is paramount.”
Yaccarino also asked if Musk had done anything at Twitter to address “hateful” content that would assuage advertisers.
“What does it mean to the advertisers? Have you de-risked the opportunity of their campaigns landing in these awful hateful places?”
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Sounds like kabuki. He hired her.
Correct. And all the buzz on Twitter is distrust of it.
This lady sounds like she is laser focused on ad revenue and doesn’t care about anything else.
That is what she’s being paid for, after all.
Well they were talking specifically about advertisers.
Huge hiring mistake. I’m hoping he walks it back. Twitter is not feeling the love on this one, that’s for sure.
Reading his bios...this is what he does...makes people prove themselves and how they will SUPPORT MUSK 100%.
Let’s see what happens with Twitter. If Musk allows Yaccarino to re-impose the same kind of censorship and partisan bias that Twitter had under Jack Dorsey, he basically wasted $44 billion for no good reason.
Show me your bank account....nope....not quite a billionaire yet...
He’s the one who said don’t trust anyone or anything.
no such thing as a “open feedback loop”
There is open loop. closed loop, and velocity loop.
non-engineers should not use terms that sound
like they know shit they don’t have a clue about.
Exactly. Shell advocate for her plans, he will agree or disagree in the end. If her plan interferes with his priorities her plan will suffer.
He does this all the time...teams up..and if it doesn’t work to his or his “partners” expectation...it gets dissolved. He wants to see results...his goal is FREE SPEECH...it’s not a choice thing for her.
Are you at all aware of the background of this woman?
Exactly.
no such thing as a “open feedback loop”
There is open loop. closed loop, and velocity loop.
non-engineers should not use terms that sound
like they know schiff they don’t have a clue about.
Yep. They’re both Deep Staters.
I do hope more Freepers open their eyes to the massive, deadly Musk grift.
generally one accepts a little bit of bad the get a woman nekid. but in this case, accepting a little bit of bad has no return that I can see...
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