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.
EFF Statement on Meta's Announcement of Revisions to Its Content
Update: After this blog post was published (addressing Meta's blog post here), we learned Meta also revised its public "Hateful Conduct" policy in ways EFF finds concerning. We address these changes
Quitting X is the easy bit, but Canada's leaders can't even do that
For many of the country's most high-profile individuals, Elon Musk's social platform is a test. They're currently failing it.
EFF Lawsuit Takes on DMCA Section 1201: Research and Technology
Washington D.C.—The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) sued the U.S. government today on behalf of technology creators and researchers to overturn onerous provisions of copyright law that violate
‘News’ Site Keeps Hallucinating EFF Staffers
What do EFF staffers Sarah Chen, Javier Morales, Caitlin Chin, Emma Rodriguez, and Mikko Kopponen have in common? For one thing, they don’t exist. For another, all have been quoted as EFF experts in
There is no ethical case for staying on X
X has crossed a line it cannot uncross. This is no longer a debate about moderation or free speech trade-offs, but about predictable harm enabled by design. When a platform becomes ethically indefensible, outrage is not enough – walking away matters.
UK attorney general tells staff to stop using X amid disinformation concerns
Exclusive: Richard Hermer’s department understood to be first in government to restrict use after recent riots
Goodbye, forever, probably.
I’m leaving developer relations and developer education. Rather than disappear completely unannounced, I wanted to tell you why.
Musk announces xAI re-org following co-founder departures, SpaceX merger
The reorganization "required parting ways with some people," Elon Musk said Wednesday on X.
Matt Beton on Twitter / X
exo v2 pending…completely rebuilt from the ground up using event sourcing design principles; scalable, reliable and future-proof.looking forward to showing everyone what we’ve been working on!! pic.twitter.com/irryxEGdw2— Matt Beton (@MattBeton) June 6, 2025
DRM's Dead Canary: How We Just Lost the Web, What We Learned from It,
EFF has been fighting against DRM and the laws behind it for a decade and a half, intervening in the US Broadcast Flag, the UN Broadcasting Treaty, the European DVB CPCM standard, the W3C EME
Notes on the xAI/Anthropic data center deal
There weren’t a lot of big new announcements from Anthropic at yesterday’s Code w/ Claude event, but the biggest by far was the deal they’ve struck with SpaceX/xAI to use …
Notes on the xAI/Anthropic data center deal
There weren’t a lot of big new announcements from Anthropic at yesterday’s Code w/ Claude event, but the biggest by far was the deal they’ve struck with SpaceX/xAI to use …
X Is a Power Problem, Not a Platform Problem
Fediverse Report #148: X is not a just platform problem anymore, it's a power problem, and why you cannot compete as platforms with power.
So, You’ve Hit An Age Gate. What Now?
EFF is against age gating and age verification mandates, and we hope we’ll win in getting existing ones overturned and new ones prevented. But mandates are already in effect, an…
The XAI/Anthropic deal is big in many ways, one of which is that it feels like an admission of defeat from Elon. Can't create a model good enough to compete with Claude so suddenly you've become a service provider for the company you accused of Destroying Western Civilization last month
The Long Tail of Work Left Until ActivityPub Has E2EE Separate from my proposal for publickey.directory (which I've certainly blogged about a lot), the W3C has been…...
The Long Tail of Work Left Until ActivityPub Has E2EE
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