X CEO's chaotic interview wins the spotlight at Code Conference – Fortune

Hi folks, Kylie Robison here with the tech team, and I’ve got yet another conference yarn to spin for you. This week, I went to Vox Media’s Code Conference in Laguna Niguel, Calif. If you haven’t heard yet, what went down was wild. I traveled from San Francisco to this conference for the headliner: X (formerly Twitter) CEO Linda Yaccarino. I was keen to see her in person since it has been almost one year since Elon Musk took control of Twitter. I’ll be blunt: Yaccarino conducted one of the worst live interviews many of us had ever seen—and you can judge for yourself! While some might say that the CEO of a massive social media platform should be able to roll with the punches (and I agree), there’s some additional context that might explain this utter and complete train wreck: An hour before Yaccarino was set to take the stage on Wednesday, the former Twitter head of trust and safety, Yoel Roth, made a surprise appearance with the founder of the conference, Kara Swisher. Roth left Twitter late last year, after a tweet by Musk falsely accused him of pedophilia, and has been open about the experiences that ensued.
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