All five major social media platforms — Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube and Twitter — fail to protect LGBTQ+ users. That's according to a new study from advocacy group GLAAD. Twitter received the lowest grade in its ability to protect LGBTQ+ users.
According to GLAAD, "the SMSI Platform Scorecard offers an evaluation of LGBTQ safety, privacy, and expression on five major platforms...
Additional key findings in the 2023 SMSI include anti-LGBTQ+ online rhetoric leading to harm in offline life, anti-LGBTQ+ hate speech is "an alarming public health and safety issue" and platforms across the board are guilty of a lack of transparency in how they report. Platforms were also found to disproportionately suppress LGBTQ+-centered content through demonitization and content removal.
by Media Matters and GLAAD. The report found that retweets of posts from anti-LGBTQ+ accounts that contained "groomer" rhetoric increased over 1200% since Musk's purchase of Twitter. "This approach is always evolving, and input from LGBTQ+ safety and advocacy organizations is critical to informing and continually improving Meta's technologies and programs."
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