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Leave X - Protect Democracy @leavex.eu · 07/09/2026
This exchange shows why we created #LeaveX: tech billionaires are using platforms they control to push their political agendas and undermine democracy worldwide. The tech oligarchs are gaining ground. How can we bring democrats together and turn concern into *effective action*?
Screenshot of an exchange on X. Elon Musk writes “Gut gemacht!” (“Well done!”). Ulrich Siegmund, the AfD’s lead candidate in Saxony-Anhalt, thanks Musk for his support and political perspective on Germany. He says that if the AfD takes responsibility, he would welcome “strong and constructive cooperation” and that Germany would once again become a place worth investing in.
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Leave X - Protect Democracy @leavex.eu · 24/02/2026
Make fascism socially unacceptable again. Leave X. #LeaveX #JohnOliver #fascim #FarRight #Disinformation #HateSpeech #Democracy
Make fascism socially unacceptable again. Leave X.
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Leave X - Protect Democracy @leavex.eu · 17/02/2026
nca-newsroom.prgloo.com/news/child-s... #EU #LeaveX #ChildAbuse #Grok
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Leave X - Protect Democracy @leavex.eu · 06/02/2026
Original post: mastodon.social/@randahl/116...
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Leave X - Protect Democracy @leavex.eu · 03/02/2026
#LeaveX #DSA #Democracy #Musk #HateSpeech #Mastodon #EU #DigitalSovereignty #diday #SocialMedia
Hand-drawn black-and-white four-panel cartoon on graph paper. Title: “Everyone agrees. No one leaves.” In the first panel, a politician speaks at a podium surrounded by words like “DSA,” “democracy,” and “hate speech,” mixed with “blah.” In the second panel, someone from the audience asks, “But why not leave X for European alternatives?” In the third panel, the politician hesitates. In the final panel, the politician resumes speaking with vague excuses like “reach,” “engagement,” and “followers,” while the audience looks confused. The cartoon highlights the gap between criticism of X and the reluctance to leave it.
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Leave X - Protect Democracy @leavex.eu · 02/02/2026
#LeaveX #Journalism #Politics #Democracy #Stalemate #X
A hand-drawn cartoon depicts a journalist and a politician pointing at each other across a large "X," both saying, "You should leave the platform first!" The cartoon illustrates a stalemate over who should leave first.


CC-BY leavex.eu
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Leave X - Protect Democracy @leavex.eu · 20/01/2026
We now have a new homepage! It took some time to create the custom layout (thanks to aivuk on GitHub!), but the result is minimalist. leavex.eu A few minor adjustments are still necessary, but we're ready to add new countries! See the replies for details on how to contribute. 1/3 #LeaveX #EU
The new home page of the Leave X campaign
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Leave X - Protect Democracy @leavex.eu · 16/01/2026
Ranking of MEPs by country and EU group still on X leavex.eu/posts/rankin... Many MEPs still rely on X for public communication despite its moderation failures, disinformation risks, and instability. Here is our ranking per country and EU political group. #LeaveX #EU #disinformation #democracy
A screenshot from the ranking per country. You can check the numbers in the link
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Leave X - Protect Democracy @leavex.eu · 15/01/2026
Who the fuck would want to use social media with a built-in child abuse tool? Delete your X account. #LeaveX #UK #Grok #ChildAbuse
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Leave X - Protect Democracy @leavex.eu · 12/01/2026
Ditch the autocrats' propaganda. Leave X. Now! #LeaveX #X #Grok #EU #Musk #Paedophilia #HateSpeech
A politician on the stage saying he is on X to reach his constituents. Below you see a caricature of Musk and a printing machine of paedophilia
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Leave X - Protect Democracy @leavex.eu · 23/10/2025
Se vier para Berlim, deixo você testar meu tambor. Seu irmão já me visitou!
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Leave X - Protect Democracy @leavex.eu · 19/02/2025
We're excited to announce that our initiative, Leave X, is joining the international campaign EscapeX to improve the digital public space! Learn more at escape-x.org. If you know someone who hasn't left X yet, share openportability.org with them. #EscapeX #LeaveX
Launch of the international campaign EscapeX: improving the digital public space
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Leave X - Protect Democracy @leavex.eu · 08/02/2025
Art: Matias de Brasi #fascism #disinformation #USpol #SocialMedia #fediart #art
Several people staring at their cell phones in a line that leads to a hole in the shape of a swastika.
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Leave X - Protect Democracy @leavex.eu · 08/02/2025
About two weeks ago, we created social media profiles for the Leave X campaign on Mastodon, Bluesky, and X (details in the link). We tried to share a post from our favorite digital magazine, @aeon.co, but - ironically - we are not allowed. So much for being "free speech absolutists." #FreeSpeech
Message from the X platform saying we cannot share Aeon's post
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Leave X - Protect Democracy @leavex.eu · 06/02/2025
www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft...
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Leave X - Protect Democracy @leavex.eu · 01/02/2025
#quotes #X #eXit 4/4
When men go to pee in a public toilet they spend a minute gazing at the wall in front of them, in what many advertisers have seized upon as an opportunity to display posters of their products above the stinking urinals.

But in terms of framing, you’d better ask yourself: Is this really what I want my brand to be associated with?

You might well think twice if you were selling ice cream or toothpaste, so what if your poster was Ursula von der Leyen’s face selling EU values?

Because that’s the kind of environment in which the European Commission president, other top EU officials, and national EU leaders are posting their images and comments every day when they use X to communicate with press and the EU public.

Even the toilet analogy is too kind. — Andrew Rettman

Nor can I skip Musk’s clear desperation, even as he holds this much wealth and power in his hands, to be thought of as cool. There are endless examples of him embarrassing himself while attempting to be funny or to gain respect. Unfortunately, while you may be able to buy power, it’s impossible to buy a good personality. — Rebecca Shaw
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Leave X - Protect Democracy @leavex.eu · 01/02/2025
#quotes #X #eXit 3/4
If we don’t want to become expendable characters in the fantasies of a child with too much hair and too much money, it will be better to realize before anything else that democracy is a wonderful purpose, very innovative and interesting, but difficult to do in a society that allows a few billionaire social network owners to decide that mass disinformation is not a public order and security problem. The misinformation that passes through major social media is the means through which millions of people are controlled who not only share fake news, but vote. Misinformation is the fast track in which those who intend to overthrow democratically elected governments travel. Disinformation is the foundation brick of the structure of this new dictatorship that has the face of progress, in this digital age. Misinformation is not the hay that functional imbeciles and illiterates feed on. Misinformation is the crowbar that right-wing governments and parties use to force the discernment capacity of every single human being. Whether it is more or less educated — Djarah Kan
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Leave X - Protect Democracy @leavex.eu · 01/02/2025
#quotes #X #eXit 2/4
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced nazi or the convinced communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction (i.e., the reality of experience) and the distinction between true and false (i.e., the standards of thought) no longer exist. — Hannah Arendt

Humanity is tolerating that a white South African Nazi billionaire in the midst of a delirium of omnipotence spits worldwide on centuries of marches and ferocious battles for the conquest of social and civil rights. And all this for what? For the promise of four flying machines, internet in the brain and the colonization of Mars? — Djarah Kan
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Leave X - Protect Democracy @leavex.eu · 31/01/2025
#disinformation #autocracy #totalitarian #hannaharendt #nazism #communism #fascism
"The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced nazi or the convinced communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction (i.e., the reality of experience) and the distinction between true and false (i.e., the standards of thought) no longer exist."

Hannah Arendt
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Leave X - Protect Democracy @leavex.eu · 28/01/2025
Via @helloquittex.bsky.social #LeaveX #eXit #helloquitx #X #farright #nazi
"I'm staying, but it's too right the far right."

Someone saying this in a nazi rally and a soldier holds a flag of X
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Leave X - Protect Democracy @leavex.eu · 25/01/2025
Wir sind hier! #LeaveX #Berlin #demo #b2501
Leave X banner with Brandenburg Tor behind
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Leave X - Protect Democracy @leavex.eu · 25/01/2025
Under the photo of Musk's Sieg Heil, Italian news magazine Internazionale "Le Monde, La Vanguardia, Mediapart, Ouest France, Libération, The Guardian, Dagens Nyheter: the list of European newspapers that have suspended their accounts on X is starting to grow." #LeaveX via @eloquence.bsky.social
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Leave X - Protect Democracy @leavex.eu · 23/01/2025
#LeaveX
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Leave X - Protect Democracy @leavex.eu · 22/01/2025
#LeaveX #helloquitx #byebyeelon #juntas
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