Ned Resnikoff, Public Comment:

If you are still posting on X, you should stop today. Quitting the site yesterday would have been better, but doing it today is better than doing it tomorrow.

The moral and political case for quitting X is so obvious that it scarcely bears repeating, but I’ll briefly recap it anyway. The guy who owns X—the person to whom you are personally donating if you pay for a blue checkmark—is Elon Musk, an out and out white supremacist who uses X to spread Nazi ideas like Great Replacement theory. He is a major backer, in both money and propaganda, of the global far right. During his brief tenure inside Trump’s Administration, he spearheaded the destruction of USAID, which, according to recent estimates, may result in 14 million deaths between 2025 and 2030.

X is the platform this particular mass murderer uses to seed his most poisonous ideas. A couple of months ago, he used the platform to egg on the Belfast pogrom. Those who continue to post on X—in particular those X users who are not racist psychopaths—are enhancing the site’s usefulness to him as a propaganda tool by drawing more eyes to the platform and making it look like an ideologically diverse “marketplace of ideas” instead of what it is: a delivery vehicle for bringing fascism into the mainstream of global politics. Oh, and perhaps the Internet’s leading destination for those in search of child sexual abuse material.

And let’s not forget Musk’s SpaceX con.

It’s not the first time I’ve boosted calls to leave X/Twitter (and it won’t be the last). Why another one? No reason other than it crossed my feed and any day is a good day to remind people that leaving X/Twitter is an option.

Mastodon, Bluesky, even (shudder) LinkedIn are better options. I could even stomach Threads, if you’re desperate. Pick one, tell your followers you’re moving and why, and leave X/Twitter behind. Your conscience will thank you.