Twitter has been a dynamic resource for SLJ since we launched our ­account in 2007, enabling us to share our content with a broad audience and engage with our readers.

We have provided news and other information with unequaled immediacy via the platform. Twitter gave staff the opportunity to find and connect with librarians and subject experts to enhance our work, from reviewing to reporting. Our coverage was made richer by the connections we made via Tweet.

But that time has passed.

Twitter, now X, is no longer serving us as a place to share our work. It’s borne out in the numbers, for starters—we’re seeing markedly less traffic and engagement via X. There’s the tenor and content of the platform, which the staff and I find morally abhorrent, rife with racism, misogyny, and disinformation counter to our collective mission and personal ethics.

Under Elon Musk—the richest man in the world, currently wielding unprecedented power in the United States without a mandate from voters or Congress—X has become a dangerous place. Among our staff and our readers, we have experienced hate speech, slander, and worse, including explicit threats and harassment on X.

Despite Musk’s pledge to defeat spam bots, inauthentic accounts have proliferated, and hate speech has risen by 50 percent since the billionaire bought Twitter in 2022. There’s been a doubling of hate post “likes” on X, according to a February 2025 study, indicating more engagement with hate spanning bigotry’s spectrum, including racism, homophobia, and transphobia.

Surrounded by white supremacists, conspiracy theorists, and Nazis, why wouldn’t we maintain a ­counter presence? X’s algorithm, shall we say, has been less favorable to certain content. Despite SLJ’s 109,400 followers, our stories, which our staff and contributors work so hard to produce, aren’t being seen.

Moreover, we don’t want our presence to in any way legitimize the disinformation and hate that have come to characterize the platform.

X threatens safe environments—online and in real life—and the potential impact of unchecked disinformation on public health and future elections should give everyone pause.

SLJ has found a new home over on Bluesky.

We’ll maintain the X account to discourage hijacking and, in the short term, will continue to post  occasionally, sharing news of censorship and other issues. Our staff and contributors may use X for  reporting, as they choose. Otherwise, we are focused on building up Bluesky as our main feed. We hope you’ll join us there.

On behalf of the team, thank you for your support.