(Reuters) -Elon Musk-owned social platform X's CEO Linda Yaccarino said on Wednesday she would step down from the role in a surprise move. Her exit comes at a difficult time for Musk, who is dealing with falling sales at his EV maker Tesla and is embroiled in a war of words with U.

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,