By Eli Walsh. Bay City News.
Santa Clara District Attorney Jeff Rosen announced Monday that he is deactivating his office's Twitter account due to a recent surge in hate speech on the platform.
In a statement, Rosen called on other district attorneys across the country to leave Twitter in an effort to oppose racist and homophobic speech.
An investigation by the Center for Countering Digital Hate and the Anti-Defamation League found that the use of anti-Black, anti-Jewish and anti-gay and transgender slurs skyrocketed on the platform in the first full week after Tesla CEO Elon Musk became the owner of Twitter.
In addition, the ADL found a 61.3 percent increase in anti-Semitic tweets referencing