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“Halting operations, rather than rushing to bring them back online, is crucial to ensuring patches, recovery efforts, and strengthened cyber security are effective in the long run,” he added.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. The group’s methodology has changed since last year, so the scores are not directly comparable to

“At a time when real-world violence and harassment against LGBTQ people is on the rise, social media companies are profiting from the flames of anti-LGBTQ hate instead of ensuring the basic safety of LGBTQ users,” said Sarah Kate Ellis, GLAAD’s president and CEO.While X has received the lowest scores since Musk’s takeover of the platform in 2022 — when it was called Twitter — Meta’s backslide can largely be attributed to its recent policy shift. CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in January that Meta is removing restrictions on topics like immigration and gender “that are out of touch with mainstream discourse,” citing “recent elections” as a catalyst. GLAAD calls the rollback ”particularly extreme.”Representatives for Meta, TikTok and X did not immediately respond to messages for comment.

GLAAD said Google recently removed “gender identity and expression” from YouTube’s list of protected characteristic groups, which suggests that the platform is “no longer protecting transgender, nonbinary, and gender-nonconforming people from hate and discrimination.”Google says this is not the case.

earlier this year our hate speech policy hasn’t changed. We have strict policies against content that promotes hatred or violence against members of the LGBTQ+ community and we continue to be vigilant in our efforts to quickly detect and remove this content,” Google said in a statement.

Although GLAAD acknowledges Google’s statement, the organization stresses that gender identity has not been restored as a protected characteristic on YouTube’s“Halting operations, rather than rushing to bring them back online, is crucial to ensuring patches, recovery efforts, and strengthened cyber security are effective in the long run,” he added.

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. The group’s methodology has changed since last year, so the scores are not directly comparable to“At a time when real-world violence and harassment against LGBTQ people is on the rise, social media companies are profiting from the flames of anti-LGBTQ hate instead of ensuring the basic safety of LGBTQ users,” said Sarah Kate Ellis, GLAAD’s president and CEO.

While X has received the lowest scores since Musk’s takeover of the platform in 2022 — when it was called Twitter — Meta’s backslide can largely be attributed to its recent policy shift. CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in January that Meta is removing restrictions on topics like immigration and gender “that are out of touch with mainstream discourse,” citing “recent elections” as a catalyst. GLAAD calls the rollback ”particularly extreme.”Representatives for Meta, TikTok and X did not immediately respond to messages for comment.