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News / 16 January 2025

DetoX: Both ENDS leaves X

Both ENDS, along with many other Dutch organisations, is leaving social media platform X. In January, we will join the campaign ‘#DetoX’ by De Goede Zaak and Stem op een Vrouw. We hope that many organisations will follow us so that the hate, misinformation and the undermining of democracy on X are given less space.

We have known for some time that the amount of hate posts and disinformation was increasing on X. The recent developments around X, where owner Elon Musk has used this social media platform to benefit Trump's campaign, were the deciding factor for us. This definitely turned X into a political platform, which we can no longer associate ourselves with.

This is despite the high number of followers from around the world we have on X. We especially regret that we can now no longer use X to amplify the voices of our partners from Asia, Africa and Latin America.

We will therefore continue to do so as much as possible on the other channels where we can still be found: LinkedIn, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube and recently also on Bluesky. We also share our most important news in a monthly newsletter.

We hope to see everyone (back) on these channels!

If you want to join this campaign, please visit https://campagnes.degoedezaak.org/campaigns/detox

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