GLAAD Ranks X Last In Protecting LGBTQ Users

The Associated Press reports:

Major social media platforms such as TikTok, Instagram and X have failed to protect LGBTQ+ users from hate and harassment, in part, because they intentionally rolled back previous safety practices, the advocacy group GLAAD said Tuesday in its annual Social Media Safety Index.

The report said that recent “unprecedented hate speech policy rollbacks” from Instagram and Facebook parent Meta Platforms and Google’s YouTube are “actively undermining the safety of LGBTQ people” both online and offline. Meta’s rollback now allows users to call LGBTQ people “mentally ill,” among other policy changes.

The scorecard assigns numeric ratings to each platform with regard to LGBTQ safety, privacy, and expression. Elon Musk’s X received the lowest score at 30 out of 100, while TikTok came in highest at 56. Meta’s Facebook, Instagram, Threads and Google’s YouTube were in the 40s.

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Social media platforms are failing LGBTQ+ users and in some cases, actively endangering them, according GLAAD’s 2025 Social Media Safety Index: protections for LGBTQ people online have eroded dramatically over the past year, especially on platforms by Meta and Google. X,… pic.twitter.com/5tPvGivCGv

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