🧵for more than two years we have urged Twitter’s leadership to prioritize safety and hold the platform accountable to its own community standards. Today, the platform is unrecognizable, so we’re stepping away. Here’s why. ⬇️

We’re so excited to see all that @DesignItForUs will accomplish, but they’ll need your support to make it happen. Give them a follow and let’s ensure a safer digital future for all. https://t.co/rsEGt28Ny4

With support from people like you, we coined “surveillance advertising.” We revealed how Google was tracking and retaining abortion seekers' sensitive location data, exposed the dangers of Instagram’s “Teen Accounts,” and so much more. And this work is far from over.

We’ve been doing this long enough to know that in order to win against Big Tech, we need young people at the helm, leading the charge.

They’re an advocacy group working to ensure safer social media and online platforms for kids, teens, and young adults – and they’ve got the lived experience to do it well.

This was a big decision, and one we didn’t make lightly. We’re doing this to focus our resources on the youth-led coalition we helped support: @DesignItForUs

🧵We’ve got a big announcement: After five years of working with advocates like you to hold Big Tech accountable, we’ve made the decision to wind down operations. Our full message here: https://t.co/f5zfRH405R

Read more about our decision here: https://t.co/7M1wZnUbUC

Together, we can keep pushing for tech accountability and advocating for safer, healthier digital spaces. We invite you to continue supporting our work and joining us on other social media platforms.

You might wonder why we’re still on other social media platforms we're fighting to hold accountable—but they are… well… dominant. We need to meet people where they’re at, and we’re hopeful they’ll partner with us – and you – in creating the digital world we deserve.

By engaging here, we risk feeding an algorithm that amplifies anger and hate, exposing our followers and allies to abuse. We can’t, in good conscience, continue to bring our community into such a toxic environment.

So why did we stay? For over two years, we stayed because the platform was a critical tool for raising awareness, informing the public, and sharing our insights on making the internet safer. But X is no longer that platform.

X has even undermined basic safety tools. The “block” feature, once a vital line of defense, no longer fully shields users, as blocked individuals can still view public posts. This erosion of safety tools makes the platform feel more unsafe than ever. https://t.co/YuYomD1ZSS

And today, November 15, X is changing its terms of service to allow all user content to be used for training third-party models. This change jeopardizes users’ privacy.

X cut entire content safety teams, reducing oversight, and letting harmful content thrive. There’s little accountability, and hateful content is not banned. We cannot support a platform that abandons user safety.

Key point: "European regulators said Meta had given itself an unfair advantage over rival services by bundling Marketplace into Facebook’s wider social network."

These voluntary best practices encourage companies to monitor and report suspicious activity. While it's a step in the right direction, there should be enforceable rules on the books *before* these products hit the market.

❗️EU Commission fines @Meta close to 800 million euros for abusing the dominant position of Facebook to boost its Facebook Marketplace product: "all Facebook users automatically have access and get regularly exposed to Facebook Marketplace whether they want it or not"

#11—European regulators fined Meta $840 million, claiming the company gave themselves an unfair advantage by tying Facebook Marketplace, their shopping and classified ads service, to the social network.

Great, yet another way for Meta to surveil users and keep them endlessly scrolling.