Yes, reader. They took away Linda Yaccarino’s blue check! Before she stepped down, Yaccarino had a blue check next to her display name, accompanied by an X logo, signifying that she is affiliated with the company that brought us Mecha Hitler. Now, both badges are gone.

Yaccarino’s departure caps a tumultuous run atop Elon Musk’s social-media platform and ​comes after the merger of xAI with X.

The abrupt resignation of X CEO Linda Yaccarino calls into question the fate of the world's largest and most politically relevant real-time social discourse platform. Why it matters: Yaccarino was hired to rehabilitate X's ad business and bring stability to the company,