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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (1st April 2025) PRESS STATEMENT: The Free Speech Union is Leaving X (Formerly Twitter) After long and careful deliberation, the Free Speech Union (FSU) has decided to leave X. This decision has not been taken lightly and follows a consultation with the Centre for Decolonising Knowledge at Sussex University, as part of wider efforts to refocus our operational priorities on social justice outcomes and deliver on our five-year plan to become the UK’s first truly ‘anti-racist’ trade union. Recent developments on the platform make it clear that X no longer aligns with our values. For several months, we have been deeply troubled by the miasma of ‘whiteness’ that has enveloped the platform, dramatically increasing the volume of unfettered commentary, unauthorised satire, and – most distressingly – people disagreeing with us. This trend towards so-called ‘viewpoint diversity’ has been tolerated – even encouraged – by the platform’s leadership, who appear to believe that ‘free speech’ includes views our General Secretary, Lord Young, finds personally irritating. The FSU joined Twitter back in 2020 in the belief that it would be a safe space to publicise our successes, criticise government legislation and defend the speech rights of our members. But it has become something else entirely: a chaotic, unpredictable arena in which users engage in counter-speech, commit microaggressions and perpetuate hateful narratives that many of our staff find triggering. While X’s relatively recent embrace of ‘free speech absolutism’ may appeal to some, we favour social media platforms with a more nuanced approach – ones that interpret Article 10 of the ECHR in the correct way: namely, by going above and beyond the Online Safety Act to silently de-amplify anyone whose politics we don’t share. At the FSU, we may not agree with what you say about us, but we will defend to the death the right of Big Tech to ban you for saying it. Effective from midnight on April Fools’ Day, we will be relocating to a platform more in keeping with our core principle of only posting in a progressive echo chamber, alongside other cloistered members of the metropolitan professional classes who regard ‘constant repetition of dogma’ as a synonym for ‘public dialogue’. You will therefore soon be able to find us on BlueSky. Click here for further details about the FSU and our social media transformation strategy: freespeechunion.org/join/ Cc: @elonmusk, @X, @GlobalAffairs