Archbishop of Sweden Antje Jackelén has announced she will take a break from Twitter after what she describes as “lies, threats and hatred” directed at both her personally and the Church of Sweden as an organisation.
According to Jackelén, her tweets are also misused to fuel “pure conspiracy theories”.
“I am described as ‘scum’ and a ‘crazy b***h’, and it feels extra hard to handle this now amid a pandemic when you are often alone. It’s like poison arrows being fired at you, but you don’t really know when they will come,” Antje Jackelén told the newspaper Dagens Nyheter.
