--- title: "CEO of X steps down" description: "☀️ Happy Thursday! The Briefing is your guide to the world of news and information. Sign up here! In today’s email: 🔥 Featured story This week, there were multiple news stories surrounding the social media platform X (formerly Twitter), a site where 12% of Americans say they regularly get news. On Wednesday, CEO Linda Yaccarino announced that […]" date: "2025-07-10" authors: - name: "nformankatz" url: "https://www.pewresearch.org/newsletter/the-briefing/ceo-of-x-steps-down/" --- # CEO of X steps down **☀️ Happy Thursday!** *The Briefing is your guide to the world of news and information*.* [**Sign up here!**](https://www.pewresearch.org/sign-up-for-the-briefing/)* **In today*’*s email:** - **Featured story:** CEO of X steps down; platform's AI chatbot posts antisemitic messages - **In other news:** NYT sparks controversy with article about Mamdani’s racial identity - **Looking ahead:** Trump Media announces deal to stream Newsmax - **Chart of the week:** Majority of U.S. teens visit YouTube, TikTok at least daily 🔥 **Featured story** This week, there were multiple news stories surrounding the social media platform **X (formerly Twitter),** a site where 12% of Americans [say they regularly get news](https://www.pewresearch.org/journalism/fact-sheet/social-media-and-news-fact-sheet/). On Wednesday, **CEO Linda Yaccarino **[announced that she is stepping down](https://www.npr.org/2025/07/09/nx-s1-5462728/x-linda-yaccarino-elon-musk) after two years in the position. Yaccarino’s announcement came days after **X’s AI-powered chatbot, Grok,** [posted antisemitic messages](https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/08/tech/grok-ai-antisemitism) in responses to some users. **Republicans and Democrats differ in their views of X, **according to a [2025 Pew Research Center survey](https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/06/05/republicans-and-democrats-on-x-differ-over-the-sites-politics-and-their-experiences/). Republicans on X are much more likely to say their experience on the site these days is mostly positive (51%) than mostly negative (11%). Democratic X users’ views are flipped: 40% say it’s a mostly negative experience, compared with 20% who say it is mostly positive. The prevailing view among Democrats on X (expressed by 55%) is that the site tends to support the views of conservatives over liberals, while just 3% say it supports liberal views over conservative ones. Meanwhile, Republicans largely say that X supports both kinds of views equally (56%). 📌 **In other news** - **The New York Times **[sparks controversy over use of hacked documents](https://www.cjr.org/news/times-mamdani-college-application-race-article-hack.php) in article on mayoral candidate **Zohran Mamdani’s** racial identity - **X’s Global Government Affairs account** says **Indian government** [ordered it to block more than 2,000 accounts](https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/08/elon-musk-x-india-censorship-reuters.html), including **Reuters** - **Fortune** and **Axios** move toward [incorporating AI into their journalism](https://www.semafor.com/article/07/06/2025/fortune-and-axios-warm-to-ai) - Publishers [file EU antitrust complaint](https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/googles-ai-overviews-hit-by-eu-antitrust-complaint-independent-publishers-2025-07-04/) over **Google’s AI-generated summaries** - **YouTube** to [tighten policy on creators’ revenue](https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/09/youtube-prepares-crackdown-on-mass-produced-and-repetitive-videos-as-concern-over-ai-slop-grows/) from AI-generated and “inauthentic” content - **L.A. Taco** [emerges as key news source](https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/07/04/la-taco-los-angeles-ice-protests/) covering **immigration crackdown** - **New NYT podcast **[brings writers in front of the camera](https://www.vulture.com/article/new-york-times-podcasters-video.html) - **CNN** relaunches [free ad-supported streaming channel](https://www.axios.com/2025/07/08/cnn-headlines-live-channel-relaunch) 📅 **Looking ahead** **Trump Media and Technology Group** [announced a deal this week](https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/07/09/trump-truth-social-newsmax-streaming-deal/) to put **Newsmax **content on its streaming platform, **Truth+.** President Donald Trump is the largest shareholder in Trump Media, which also owns the social media platform Truth Social. Four-in-ten U.S. adults have heard of Newsmax, and 8% say they regularly get news there, according to a recent [Center survey](https://www.pewresearch.org/journalism/feature/news-media-tracker/) that asked Americans about 30 major news sources.** **[**Republicans are much more likely**](https://www.pewresearch.org/journalism/feature/news-media-tracker/newsmax)** than Democrats to say they regularly get news from Newsmax** (15% vs. 1%) and to say they generally trust Newsmax as a source of news (21% vs. 2%). Older Americans are also more likely than young adults to regularly get news from Newsmax and to trust it. 📊 **Chart of the week** This week's chart comes from an [analysis on teens and social media](https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/07/10/10-facts-about-teens-and-social-media/) based on a 2024 survey of U.S. teens ages 13 to 17. Around three-quarters of teens (73%) report using YouTube daily, while 57% say they use TikTok at least once a day. And about half visit Instagram (50%) and Snapchat (48%) daily. In all four cases, **at least one-in-ten teens use each app or site “almost constantly.”** ![Roughly three-quarters of teens visit YouTube daily, while around 6 in 10 say this about TikTok](https://www.pewresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/20/2025/07/SR_25.07.10_teens-social_2_7c2fca.png?w=640) *👋 That's all for this week. * The Briefing is compiled by Pew Research Center staff, including Naomi Forman-Katz, Jacob Liedke, Christopher St. Aubin, Luxuan Wang, Emily Tomasik, Joanne Haner and Mary Randolph. It is edited by Michael Lipka and copy edited by Mia Hennen. *Do you like this newsletter? Email us at [journalism@pewresearch.org](mailto:journalism@pewresearch.org) or fill out this [two-question survey](https://us1.list-manage.com/survey?u=434f5d1199912232d416897e4&id=449f3c3d35&attribution=false) to tell us what you think*.