For the second year in a row, the five largest social media platforms received failing grades on LGBTQ safety, GLAAD report says.
Amy Osborne / AFP via Getty Images fileFor the second year in a row, the five largest social media platforms received failing grades on LGBTQ safety, according to a report from GLAAD, an LGBTQ media advocacy group.graded Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, TikTok and YouTube on LGBTQ safety, privacy and expression using 12 LGBTQ-specific standards. GLAAD found that all five of the platforms scored below 50%.
“Today’s political and cultural landscapes demonstrate the real-life harmful effects of anti-LGBTQ rhetoric and misinformation online,” Ellis said in a statement. “The hate and harassment, as well as misinformation and flat-out lies about LGBTQ people, that go viral on social media are creating real-world dangers, from legislation that harms our community to the recent threats of violence at Pride gatherings.
More than half, or 54%, of LGBTQ respondents also reported experiencing severe harassment — double the rate of non-LGBTQ respondents, at 26%, according to the ADL survey. Severe harassment included physical threats, sustained harassment, stalking, sexual harassment, doxing, which means revealing someone’s address or other personal information online, or swatting, which refers to falsely reporting an emergency to dispatch armed police officers to someone’s location.
A spokesperson for Meta said that Facebook and Instagram “prohibit violent or dehumanizing content directed against people who identify as LGBTQ+ and remove claims about someone’s gender identity upon their request. We also work closely with our partners in the civil rights community to identify additional measures we can implement through our products and policies.”
The platforms scored well in some areas. For example, all of them received a 100% for policies that commit to protecting LGBTQ users from hate, discrimination and harassment on the platform. GLAAD’s report also urged Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and YouTube to expressly prohibit content that promotes so-called “conversion therapy,” a discredited practice that seeks to change someone’s sexual orientation or gender identity.
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