Playbill Dumps Twitter For 'Tolerating Hate'

Playbill, a news outlet and guide for the Broadway theater community and theatergoers, said Friday it left Twitter after Elon Musk took over the platform, Ramishah Maruf and Brian Fung reported for CNN.

Photo Insert: In a statement, Broadway news outlet Playbill said Twitter has “greatly expanded its tolerance for hate, negativity, and misinformation.”

In a statement, Playbill said the social media platform has “greatly expanded its tolerance for hate, negativity, and misinformation.” The account, which had more than 400,000 followers, was not active on Twitter as of Friday.

The company that owns Playbill was established in 1885. It is family-owned. “We feel we can no longer continue to utilize a platform where the line between actual news and insidious rhetoric has become blurred beyond recognition,” Playbill said in a statement.

The following Playbill Twitter accounts are no longer active: @Playbill, @PlaybillTravel, @PLAYBILLder, @PlaybillArts, @PlaybillStore.

The company said it would maintain its social media presence on Instagram, Facebook, and TikTok. The company added that any tweet from a Twitter account that contains the Playbill name is fake.

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