'Every American has a moral obligation to fight against hate speech.' Santa Clara County District Attorney Jeff Rosen says he will deactivate his office's Twitter account due to recent rise in hate speech on the platform.
account due to the recent rise in hate speech on the platform.
In addition, the ADL found a 61.3-percent increase in antisemitic tweets referencing "Jews or Judaism" during the two weeks following Musk's takeover of Twitter in late October, compared to the two weeks prior. Rosen also cited Twitter lifting its ban on some 62,000 accounts that were previously banned for, among other things, misogyny, racism, transphobia and other hate speech.
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