The Edinburgh Fringe has announced it is leaving the social media site formerly known as Twitter due to the "negativity and misinformation" on the platform.
The world's largest arts festival will no longer post on 𝕏, owned by Elon Musk, it announced in a statement titled X-it, stage right.
The social media platform was taken over by Mr Musk in October 2022, with many criticising the lack of content moderation and the prevalence of bots under his ownership.
In a statement the Fringe said: "Our core values are centred around a strong sense of community, inclusion, collaboration, honesty, transparency and kindness.
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"In recent months, if not years, 𝕏 has become a space that increasingly tolerates the spread of negativity and misinformation; we also have concerns around 𝕏's terms of service with regards to users' intellectual property and how 𝕏 uses it.
"As such, we have decided to stop using our 𝕏 accounts @edfringe, @fringecentral and @edfringesociety.
"This will impact some activities we have previously run via 𝕏, e.g #TweetTheMedia. We're looking into how these activities can work on other platforms and will update our advice to artists in due course.
"You can continue to follow news about the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and the work of the Fringe Society on edfringe.com or on other social media platforms: Bluseky, Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, Threads, TikTok and YouTube."
