The nonprofit organisation will remain active on other social media platforms.

The prominent digital rights nonprofit Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) will no longer use social media platform X, primarily due to diminishing engagement from its posts there.

In a blogpost explaining its decision, the EFF said that “an X post today receives less than 3pc of the views a single tweet delivered seven years ago”.

Earlier this week, the Harvard-based NiemanLab published an “analysis of thousands of tweets from 18 publishers” suggesting that linked posts on X are not driving significant traffic to their sites.

The social media network formerly known as Twitter was acquired by Elon Musk in October 2022 before setting about removing restrictions, oversight and moderation of content.

The EFF said that at the time of the takeover, its priorities for improvement of the platform were transparent content moderation, tangible security improvements and greater user control.

The EFF said it will remain active on other platforms such as Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and TikTok, despite its grievances and concerns around various aspects of their operations, to assist people who have no choice but to be present “in the walled gardens of the mainstream platforms”.

“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 criticising the very platform we’re posting on,” the nonprofit said in its blogpost, noting that its continued presence on these services “is not an endorsement”.

It added: “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.”

The EFF, founded in 1990, describes itself as “the leading nonprofit organisation defending civil liberties in the digital world”, with a stated mission “to ensure that technology supports freedom, justice and innovation for all people of the world”.

The donor-funded US nonprofit claims to use “the unique expertise of leading technologists, activists and attorneys in our efforts to defend free speech online, fight illegal surveillance, advocate for users and innovators, and support freedom-enhancing technologies”.

In the media and publishing landscape, many organisations have left X since the Musk takeover, for a variety of reasons. They include the UK’s Guardian, France’s Le Monde, and NPR and PBS in the US.

Silicon Republic decided to stop using X in November 2024.

X was acquired by xAI, another Musk company, in March 2025; xAI was in turn acquired by Musk’s SpaceX in February 2026.

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