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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)


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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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Jomi said:
Nikita Bier calling for TND here if I'm reading between the lines correctly
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Its unfortunate that so few people are calling them out in the right way. Abandoning the larger X and while remaining on the smaller Bluesky is an indefensible political move that makes no sense even in terms of their own argument. Crying about tiktok or facebook is just playing their game and being a useful idiot for them.
 
receives less than 3% of the views a single tweet delivered seven years ago.
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We aren't getting infinite bot traffic anymore. Shut the whole thing down.:bogged:

We all knew it was bad, we just didn't realize it was 97% bad.
 
Pure Soap said:
The EFF cares about digital rights the same way that the ACLU cares about civil rights.
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grump said:
just like the ACLU now only cares about the civil liberties of the 'right side'.
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Guess who just got in control of the EFF...

Nicole Ozer Named as Electronic Frontier Foundation’s Executive Director
Electronic Frontier Foundation (archive.ph)
2026-03-25 17:18:01GMT
SAN FRANCISCO – Nicole Ozer has been appointed as executive director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation effective June 1.

Ozer is a legal expert on privacy and surveillance, artificial intelligence, and digital speech. She currently serves as the inaugural executive director of the Center for Constitutional Democracy at the University of California College of the Law in San Francisco. From 2004-2025, she was founding director of the Technology and Civil Liberties Program at the American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California. Ozer will succeed Cindy Cohn, who has been with EFF for more than 25 years and served as its executive director since 2015.

EFF champions user privacy, free expression, and innovation through impact litigation, policy analysis, grassroots activism, and technology development, with a mission to ensure that technology supports freedom, justice, and innovation for all people of the world. The organization celebrated its 35th anniversary in 2025.

"I am honored to lead EFF forward in these critical times. EFF’s global work to defend and advance rights, justice, and democracy in the digital age is fundamental to the future of our countries, our livelihoods, and literally our lives,” Ozer said. “I am ready to hit the ground running with EFF’s exceptional staff, board, and broad base of supporters and ensure that EFF is stronger than ever. Together, we can meet this moment and build a future where technology works for the people.”

“I couldn’t be happier to pass EFF’s reins over to Nicole,” Cohn said. “She has been our stalwart partner for many years in standing up for privacy, free speech and innovation online. I’m confident that she understands both the strong heart and the future potential of EFF especially as our work is more critical than ever.”

“Nicole Ozer is the ideal person to lead EFF during this unprecedented time in our nation’s history,” said EFF Board Chair Gigi Sohn. “She possesses all of the qualities necessary to lead the organization: great vision, strong management skills and deep substantive knowledge. The fact that she has worked alongside EFF for over two decades is icing on the cake. The EFF Board is excited to welcome Nicole and begin a new chapter in our history.”

Over her more than two decades leading public interest technology work, Ozer:
  • spearheaded passage of the California Electronic Communications Privacy Act – the nation’s strongest electronic surveillance law, requiring a warrant for government access to electronic information;
  • modernized California law to protect reading records in the digital age by helping to craft the Reader Privacy Act requiring a “super warrant” for government access;
  • created a groundbreaking model law for local democratic oversight of surveillance systems which inspired 25 laws across the country that help safeguard the rights and safety of more than 17 million people;
  • litigated civil liberties cases and drafted influential amicus briefs on technology issues at all levels of state and federal court, including the U.S. Supreme Court and California Supreme Court; and
  • developed multi-year campaigns to strengthen the anti-surveillance policies related to social media surveillance and face recognition of major technology companies and foster stronger privacy and free expression protection for billions of people worldwide.
Ozer is a lecturer at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law; was a 2024-2025 technology and human rights fellow with the Carr-Ryan Center for Human Rights Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School; and in 2019 was a visiting researcher at the Berkeley Center for Law and Technology and a non-residential fellow with the Digital Civil Society Lab at the Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society.

Ozer's work has earned accolades including the Fearless Advocate Award from the American Constitution Society Bay Area, the James Madison Freedom of Information Award from the Society of Professional Journalists of Northern California, and a 2025 California Senate Members resolution commending her “unwavering dedication to defending and promoting civil liberties in the digital world.” Her writings on privacy and constitutional law have been published widely, and she regularly provides expert testimony for government proceedings, offers commentary in the press, speaks at academic conferences, and presents at national and global forums including South by Southwest and the Centre for European Policy Studies. She holds a law degree from the University of California, Berkeley School of Law and a bachelor’s in American Studies from Amherst College.

"It is incredibly exciting to welcome Nicole Ozer as our new leader at EFF at a time when the organization's mission couldn't be more essential,” said entrepreneur, activist, writer, and EFF Board member Anil Dash. "Nicole's unique skills promise to build on the foundation that Cindy Cohn established as Executive Director, preparing EFF to serve an even more vital role in protecting privacy and innovation."

Cohn first became involved with EFF in 1993 when EFF asked her to serve as the outside lead attorney in Bernstein v. Dept. of Justice, the successful First Amendment challenge to the U.S. export restrictions on cryptography. She served as EFF’s legal director and general counsel from 2000 through 2015, and as executive director since then. She also co-hosted EFF’s award-winning “How to Fix the Internet” podcast. Her memoir, Privacy’s Defender: My Thirty-Year Fight Against Digital Surveillance, was published March 10 by MIT Press, and she is now conducting a national book tour.

EFF's Board of Directors last year assembled a committee which undertook a wide search for Cohn’s successor with assistance from leadership advisory firm Russell Reynolds Associates.

Contact: press@eff.org

Nicole Ozer - Technology & Civil Liberties Director
ACLU of Northern California (archive.ph)
2024-01-23 13:12:53GMT
Nicole Ozer (@nicoleozer) is the Technology and Civil Liberties Director for the ACLU of Northern California and has led the organization’s cutting-edge work in California to defend and promote civil liberties in the modern digital world since 2004 utilizing an integrated advocacy approach that coordinates work in the courts, in communities, with companies, and California policymakers to achieve maximum impact. Nicole spearheaded the passage of the landmark California Electronic Communications Privacy Act (CalECPA) and California Reader Privacy Act, designed groundbreaking local surveillance reform strategies now used across the country, and also developed the ACLU’s national online privacy campaign, Demand Your dotRights. Prior to joining the ACLU, Nicole was an intellectual property attorney at Morrison & Foerster in San Francisco. Nicole graduated magna cum laude from Amherst College, studied comparative civil rights history at the University of Cape Town, South Africa, and earned her J.D. from Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California Berkeley.
 
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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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No no, they said something! They put up a post that was basically "H-hey guys we know those k-kiwifarmers are bad dudes but m-maybe we shouldn't use the Internet infrastructure to censor people, kinda sorta sorry..." Then some random faggot on Twitter called them a Nazi and they instantly backpedaled and memory holed the whole thing.
 
X is enshittified, and I personally refuse to partake in it. I don't blame them for wanting to leave. I do remember the optimism they (EFF) instilled into me when I was getting into the tech sector right after the crash of '08. Tech patents bad. Privacy good. Free Speech good. Net Neutrality good. Copying is not theft. etc. However after watching corporations overtake EVERYTHING I worked hard to build a bright a better future so people can have a place to shitpost a random dickpic and giggle about it, EFF was NOT there when they were needed most to stop or even advise them. What's made worse is that everyone suddenly has amnesia about what happened in the past and what the good times were like.

Thanks for nothing, EFF. I do sincerely hope you do find your nuts and do what is actually needed instead of sitting around and doing fuck all. :c
 
EFF has not done anything meaningful in over a decade.
Today they merely exist as a facade to raise money to pay hefty salaries for far left ideologues and their friends they employ.

They continue to exist since people still donate because of their legacy of the work they did 30 years ago but I think this is in decline. People continue to wake up, realize EFF for what it is and stop donating. I find it hard they can replace the old donors with new ones as everything they cater to today are to please the broke and woke crowd.

If you think this is an exaggeration, name one single thing of substance that EFF has done in the last decade.
 
thirstytux said:
I know nothing about them anymore, but back in the day they were all over coverage of the:

Sony BMG copy protection rootkit scandal​

If interested, look for it with "site:eff.org" in your search.
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Oh man, what an actual outrage that was. Put CD in your cd player, it plays music. Put CD in your computer, get terms and conditions that they can see what you are doing on your PC pertaining to your music. Sleazy as fuck.
 
robobobo said:
No no, they said something! They put up a post that was basically "H-hey guys we know those k-kiwifarmers are bad dudes but m-maybe we shouldn't use the Internet infrastructure to censor people, kinda sorta sorry..." Then some random faggot on Twitter called them a Nazi and they instantly backpedaled and memory holed the whole thing.
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I was meeting irl with a 4chan-ish buddy from the UK as he was coming through town he just sorta " . . . " at me mentioning how nobody's doing shit about OFCOM outside of the Farms and 4chan is tagging along for the ride, then later he mentioned he was next hitting an EFF thing
I still love him totes hetero
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Oh man, what an actual outrage that was. Put CD in your cd player, it plays music. Put CD in your computer, get terms and conditions that they can see what you are doing on your PC pertaining to your music. Sleazy as fuck.
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back in the day I had to break out the professional grade shit to rip Animetal because Sony dropped some funky ice where a normal ripper like CDEX had a lot of static noise
 
I see this as a failure of the EFF itself, not X.
Their politicization to the more woke left side of the spectrum has made them less broadly relevant.
When X stopped being a leftist hugbox, leftists fled the service, so of course the EFF’s impressions dropped.
If they were truly apolitical they’d have broader relevance and their impressions wouldn’t be cratering.
 
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