Twitter CEO Linda Yaccarino will be at the Code Conference
by Nilay Patel from The Verge - All Posts on (#6CAN8)
It's a big year for the Code Conference - Vox Media's annual tech-and-media gathering founded by Kara Swisher and Walt Mossberg has a new location and new hosts: CNBC's Julia Boorstin, Platformer's Casey Newton, and... me. It's going to be a big one, with lots to discuss: it feels like the internet itself is changing as social platforms reinvent themselves in controversial ways, big players push for platform changes like VR, and - of course - as AI disrupts everything.
The first guest we're announcing is a big one: newly-installed Twitter/X CEO Linda Yaccarino. Linda's taking over a company that Elon Musk reinvented in dramatic ways - most notably by laying off huge numbers of people, but also by refocusing its mission on a...