An L.A. County district attorney's office tweet about staff members attending a West Hollywood Pride event was met with bigoted, hateful comments that went unaddressed by moderators.
The Los Angeles County district attorney’s office said this week it would no longer post to Twitter after website moderators ignored requests to delete a torrent of bigoted and hateful comments left under a post about employees attending the West Hollywood Pride parade.of about two dozen employees holding gay pride flags after they marched in the annual parade Sunday.
Among the 90 replies to the tweet were those calling the employees photographed “pedophiles” or “groomers,” as well as grotesque images of deformed male genitalia and, in one case, a swastika.Blacknell said the office reported a number of the hateful comments to Twitter but received no response. “The Pride Parade post was met with a barrage of vicious and offensive comments that left us deeply troubled. The comments ranged from homophobic and transphobic slurs to sexually explicit and graphic images, and even after reporting them to Twitter, they remained visible on our account for more than 24 hours,” she said in a statement to The Times. “The district attorney’s office will not be complicit and utilize a platform that promotes such hateful rhetoric.
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