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After almost twenty years on the platform, EFF is logging off of X. This isn’t a decision we made lightly, but it might be overdue. The math hasn’t worked out for a while now.

The Numbers Aren’t Working Out​

We posted to Twitter (now known as X) five to ten times a day in 2018. Those tweets garnered somewhere between 50 and 100 million impressions per month. By 2024, our 2,500 X posts generated around 2 million impressions each month. Last year, our 1,500 posts earned roughly 13 million impressions for the entire year. To put it bluntly, an X post today receives less than 3% of the views a single tweet delivered seven years ago.

We Expected More​

When Elon Musk acquired Twitter in October 2022, EFF was clear about what needed fixing.

We called for:
  • Transparent content moderation: Publicly shared policies, clear appeals processes, and renewed commitment to the Santa Clara Principles
  • Real security improvements: Including genuine end-to-end encryption for direct messages
  • Greater user control: Giving users and third-party developers the means to control the user experience through filters and interoperability.
Twitter was never a utopia. We've criticized the platform for about as long as it’s been around. Still, Twitter did deserve recognition from time to time for vociferously fighting for its users’ rights. That changed. Musk fired the entire human rights team and laid off staffers in countries where the company previously fought off censorship demands from repressive regimes. Many users left. Today we're joining them.

"But You're Still on Facebook and TikTok?" ​

Yes. And we understand why that looks contradictory. Let us explain.

EFF exists to protect people’s digital rights. Not just the people who already value our work, have opted out of surveillance, or have already migrated to the fediverse. The people who need us most are often the ones most embedded in the walled gardens of the mainstream platforms and subjected to their corporate surveillance.

Young people, people of color, queer folks, activists, and organizers use Instagram, TikTok, and Facebook every day. These platforms host mutual aid networks and serve as hubs for political organizing, cultural expression, and community care. Just deleting the apps isn't always a realistic or accessible option, and neither is pushing every user to the fediverse when there are circumstances like:
  • You own a small business that depends on Instagram for customers.
  • Your abortion fund uses TikTok to spread crucial information.
  • You're isolated and rely on online spaces to connect with your community.
Our presence on Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, and TikTok is not an endorsement. We've spent years exposing how these platforms suppress marginalized voices, enable invasive behavioral advertising, and flag posts about abortion as dangerous. We’ve also taken action in court, in legislatures, and through direct engagement with their staff to push them to change poor policies and practices.

We stay because the people on those platforms deserve access to information, too. We stay because some of our most-read posts are the ones criticizing the very platform we're posting on. We stay because the fewer steps between you and the resources you need to protect yourself, the better.

We'll Keep Fighting. Just Not on X​

When you go online, your rights should go with you. X is no longer where the fight is happening. The platform Musk took over was imperfect but impactful. What exists today is something else: diminished, and increasingly de minimis.

EFF takes on big fights, and we win. We do that by putting our time, skills, and our members’ support where they will effect the most change. Right now, that means Bluesky, Mastodon, LinkedIn, Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, YouTube, and eff.org. We hope you follow us there and keep supporting the work we do. Our work protecting digital rights is needed more than ever before, and we’re here to help you take back control.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/04/eff-leaving-x (Archive)


Author btw:

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Kenyatta Thomas​


Social Media and Video Manager

As the Social Media and Video Manager at EFF, Kenyatta Thomas leads the creation of digital content that educates and mobilizes the public across EFF's online platforms. They come to EFF from a background in youth and reproductive justice advocacy and organizing, having previously worked with organizations such as Physicians for Reproductive Health, the National Network of Abortion Funds, Reproaction, and Advocates for Youth. Their work as a sex educator and abortion doula informs their deep commitment to community care, access to information, and tech equity. Kenyatta believes in the transformative power of digital tools to advance justice and is committed to making online spaces more inclusive, accessible, and empowering for all.

Kenyatta received their B.A. in Interdisciplinary Studies with concentrations in Digital Audiences and Justice Studies from Arizona State University. Outside of work, Kenyatta can be found playing video games, writing screenplays, and affectionately annoying their cat.
 
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make_it_so said:
Didn't this same EFF say nothing the during the unprecedented coordinated deplatforming campaign against Josh a few years ago?
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IIRC, they did put out a statement but then swiftly walked it back after troons flipped out.
The EFF is a perfect example of why a lot of these activist organizations need to come with an expiration date and have a clear goal. Eventually, they just turn into absolute messes with just a jumble of causes under the same umbrella, some of them even conflicting with each other. Once people start collecting a paycheck, it has no shit of actually accomplishing whatever mission it is going for.
 
chiobu said:
EFF exists to protect people’s digital rights
fired the entire human rights team
people of color, queer folks, activists, and organizers
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- Organization whose goal is (ostensibly) protecting individuals' rights to privacy, free speech, etc
- Oy vey about loss of team whose explicit purpose is mass censorship
- Pander to groups championed by entire Corpo-Government-University Regime
- Leave the platform head and shoulders above everyone else in protecting user privacy and open speech
 
The virgin EFF vs the chad USIPS.

The EFF stopped being a useful group of digital freedom fighters at least 15 years ago.
 
EFF is sort of like the ACLU in that in the past they did do some important things but ultimately failed in their mission, at least partially because they disappeared up their own ass being derailed into an SJW side quest and I guess being a slushfund for middle age do nothing bureaucrats.

And they now represent the opposite of what they originally stand for. The modern day EFF by embracing soft censorship tactics show they now only care about the electronic freedom of the 'right side' just like the ACLU now only cares about the civil liberties of the 'right side'.
 
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Why are they obsessed with abortion? How does terminating unborn babies relate to ‘Internet Civil Rights’?

I assume this is an organisation that might’ve done some good once, but then suddenly got took over by trannies and commies around the mid-2010’s?
 
Gottahavemysips said:
IIRC, they did put out a statement but then swiftly walked it back after troons flipped out.
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They gave some excuse about Cloudflare not being vital infrasructure so it's not infringing on rights, but yes, basically that was the reason.

EFF has been filled with BPD women, DEI, and many of them with connections to suspicious government projects. Just look at their Jewess Cybersecurity Director. Its been more focused on pro-abortion information distribution than anything else recently if that tells you anything.
 
I've never seen a doula who also denies womanhood.

This bleached Kenyan nepo-bitch is insane.
 
EFF is yet another organization that was captured by communists and is now pushing while pretending that they are fighting for internet freedom
 
grump said:
EFF is sort of like the ACLU in that in the past they did do some important things but ultimately failed in their mission, at least partially because they disappeared up their own ass being derailed into an SJW side quest and I guess being a slushfund for middle age do nothing bureaucrats.

And they now represent the opposite of what they originally stand for. The modern day EFF by embracing soft censorship tactics show they now only care about the electronic freedom of the 'right side' just like the ACLU now only cares about the civil liberties of the 'right side'.
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They would have left Steven Jackson to dry if the case responsible for their formation happened today.
 
monk said:
EFF did sponsor (maybe they still do, idk) Let's Encrypt, the CA that gives everyone free certificates. Before that you had to pay, usually quite large sums, for them.
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Its more accurate to say that EFF was "a" sponsor of Let's Encrypt. They still give it some money. But the reality of Let's Encrypt is that it and the company behind it are completely controlled by the biggest companies in tech. Cisco and Amazon sit on its board of directors controlling its technical direction. Google provides them with significant funding.

There is nothing "for the public good" about them. They are completely captured and represent the interests of the tech establishment.

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While they do provide a useful public service, they could cease doing it or offer it on far different terms than they do today at any time. Part of the reason they were willed into existence was to overcome objections to the quasi-monopoly status of the true CAs.
 
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Strix454 said:
While they do provide a useful public service, they could cease doing it or offer it on far different terms than they do today at any time. Part of the reason they were willed into existence was to overcome objections to the quasi-monopoly status of the true CAs.
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Yeah, the same as all centralized services. Only truly p2p networks are censorship resistant. Even if they ban them from the clearnet they can survive in the darknet or if they even ban all darknets, over fidonet.
 
EFF is a sad little shadow of its former self, being worn as a skinsuit by the progressive outrage activism complex. You can tell, because they hired a social media manager whose only previous work was advocating for and participating in abortions, and they care far less about 'electronic freedom' than the catalog of mandatory progressive goodthink.
 
when will they be deleting the account and freeing up the username? oh right, they won't.

they'll be back when they realise the alternative is a bunch of broke retards on bluesky that only perpetuate the thing they claim to fight for.
 
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