The nonprofit says it is leaving because “the numbers haven’t added up” for some time. “Many users left. Today, we join them,” says the foundation.
A non-profit organization dedicated to digital privacy, I’m going to stop publishing no X from Thursday, largely due to a sharp drop in views on the platform over the past few years.
In a post on the foundation’s blog announcing the departure, Kenyatta Thomashead of social media at the EFF, explained that the organization used to have between 50 and 100 million impressions per month on X, but this scenario has changed.
“Last year, our 1,500 publications generated around 13 million of impressions throughout the year. Bluntly: a publication on X receives today less than 3% of the views a single tweet generated seven years ago.”
According to Thursday’s publication, the decreasing trend in culture and in the policies of also weighed in on the EFF’s decision to leave the platform.
When, in 2022, the EFF publicly shared the changes you would like to see on the platformincluding a more transparent content moderationgreater security and more control for users and third-party developers.
EFF considers that These changes never materializedand claims that X changed for the worse since 2021. “Many users left. Today, we join them,” writes Thomas.
A Electronic Frontier Foundation will continue sharing content about digital privacy and freedom of expression on its other social media channels, including Bluesky, Mastodon, LinkedIn, InstagramTikTok, Facebook e YouTube.
EFF is an international non-profit organization, founded in 1990 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States. Dedicated to defending civil rights and liberties in the digital world.
Its main areas of activity include fight against mass surveillance by governments and companies en masse, the defense of citizens’ right to privacy in communications and in the use of the internet, freedom of expression online and the right to free movement of information.
The foundation opposes legislation and practices that it considers restrictive for users, particularly in matters of intellectual propertydigital rights management and access to information.
It is also known for developing privacy protection toolssuch as the HTTPS Everywhere browser extension (now discontinued) and , which blocks online trackers.
