The charity leaders body Acevo is to stop posting on the social media platform X because it is “no longer a safe space” for the people it looks to engage with. 

The membership body, which joined the platform formerly known as Twitter in 2009 and has more than 30,000 followers, said X “no longer aligned with our values of inclusivity and honesty”. 

It comes after the platform was identified as a source of misinformation that played a key role in inciting the riots that took place in various parts of the UK following the fatal stabbings of three girls in Southport last month. 

Jane Ide, chief executive of Acevo and who has also deactivated her personal X account, said the charity’s engagement with its audiences on X had been in decline since Elon Musk took it over in 2022, with Acevo having more success using LinkedIn. 

“Given that we have limited capacity for running social media content, it has been making sense for a long time that we should focus our attention in the place where our audience seems to have primarily moved,” she said. 

“But since the riots we have made the formal decision to go the final step and close our account in a planned way; on the basis of our values as an organisation and our concerns also that X is no longer a safe space for the people we look to engage with.

“We will be leaving a pinned tweet in place for the next three months explaining what we are doing and why, and pointing people to where they will find our content; and then we will close the account altogether.”

The Race Equality Foundation earlier this month decided to withdraw from X because of concerns about a lack of action in areas including racism, Islamophobia and transphobia. 

Jabeer Butt, chief executive of the Race Equality Foundation, which had more than 10,000 followers on the platform, said: “It is increasingly difficult for us to remain on a platform that not only tolerates but also amplifies extreme and harmful views. 

“In the past, we could report racism on Twitter and expect some action to be taken. However, the surge in unaddressed complaints over the last few months suggests that the platform now views racist abuse as an acceptable, even valuable, form of engagement.

“This is something we cannot and will not endorse.”

The charity is expected to move its content to Threads instead.