Jeff Rosen, the district attorney for Santa Clara County — California's largest county prosecutor's office — deactivated its official Twitter account Tuesday, citing rising hate speech on the platform following its takeover by billionaire Elon Musk.
posted to Twitter on Monday, Rosen wrote,"As Americans, we have the freedom to loudly express our political opinions and strongly disagree with each other. However, when that speech crosses the line into hatred, racism and antisemitism, all of our precious and hard fought freedoms are undermined and our democracy is weakened."
In this photo illustration, the image of Elon Musk is displayed on a computer screen and the logo of twitter on a mobile phone.statement published to the district attorney's office website "That is what many Germans did in the 1930s and what many South Africans did in the 1980s. It is what Elon Musk is doing in the 2020s," Rosen said in the statement.
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