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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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It doesn't matter in the least because the EFF doesn't do anything useful anyway. Its a bunch of rotten people that collect money and then spend it on themselves. Going exclusively to bluesky is exactly what would be expected from them.
 
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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Only the right people that they approve of. This does not include anyone on KF or has the lightest whiff of "bad" opinions.
 
chiobu said:
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.
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I have a feeling that if they allowed people to auto filter all trannies they'd be fuming in the mouth.
 
chiobu said:
To put it bluntly, an X post today receives less than 3% of the views a single tweet delivered seven years ago.
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Ok, but it takes zero effort to post a tweet. All your stupid social media dashboards already have integration and automation for it. There is literally no reason to give up 13 million impressions if you are serious about outreach and communication.

But the EFF is not serious about those things. At least, not under this idiot.
Young people, people of color, queer folks, activists, and organizers
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What does any of that have to do with freedom on the Internet?

some of our most-read posts are the ones criticizing the very platform we're posting on
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So you're going to stop criticizing the platform you have the most criticism for, because your views are down? Brilliant strategy. I can see that B.A. in Interdisciplinary Studies really taught you some valuable things.

where they will effect the most change.
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that means Bluesky, Mastodon,
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The argument is incoherent drivel.

How is their lack of engagement related to their proposed panaceas? How would any of that have helped their impact?

For that matter, how would X catering to the alphabet soup grievance hucksters have improved the EFF's reach?

When freer speech causes you to get ignored more, the problem isn't with the free speech.

Suffah, Children of Godwin.
 
So when are they going to denounce OFCOM? I haven't seen them do that and instead whine about abortion, faggotry, and Palestine.
 
Louis Rossmann and FUTO are doing way more than the EFF about digital rights.
 
The EFF cares about digital rights the same way that the ACLU cares about civil rights. If it isn’t a brown or a fag being affected, they don’t give a shit.
 
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.
They also made the HTTPS Everywhere and Privacy Badger extensions, though I don't find them as useful.
I'm disappointed that P2P decentralized encryption didn't catch on more. Technologies like DANE could replace centralized PKI CA's, the technology and standards have all been there for years already, but clients lack support for it.
DANE does shift the root of trust from the CA to the DNS, so it requires DNSSEC and trust of the PKI infrastructure of it, but that's better than also having to trust a CA in addition. If EFF sponsored to do more about DANE I would like them more.
I don't trust centralized systems. Especially CA's are horrible, they're fundamentally flawed and cannot be made secure, as you have no way of knowing if a CA has issued a "shadow" certificate for one of the domains you control and given it to an attacker, allowing them to MITM you undetected.
Technology like Let's Encrypt, while superficially way better than the commercial CA's they replace, is definitely a prime target for attackers and state actors to infiltrate and backdoor. And EFF popularized it, instead of popularizing a decentralized P2P net, encrypted with better technology like PGP keys. Their money could be going to educating everyone about the Web of Trust, giving out free OpenPGP cards or tokens, and making PGP use more widespread, instead they are popularizing a technology that benefits tech corporations and governments.
 
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