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“The General Assembly has every ability to enact laws protecting children like the SAFE Act,” President Aaron Baer said in a statement, “and the Supreme Court sided with the Ohio Constitution by overturning the lower court.”SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Major social media platforms such as Instagram and YouTube 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

The report said that recent “unprecedented hate speech policy rollbacks” from Instagram and Facebook parentand 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. 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.”The trend to hedge beyond the region has been consistent with continued reports of crackdowns targeting Asian-led scam centers that have been found operating in Africa, South Asia, the Middle East and select Pacific islands, as well as related money laundering, people trafficking and recruitment services discovered in Europe, North America and South America.

has become a hot spot, with police raids in late 2024 and early 2025 leading to many arrests, including people from East and Southeast Asia suspected of cryptocurrency and romance scams. Zambia and Angola have also busted Asian-linked cyberfraud operations.In Latin America, the report says that it’s “notable that Brazil has emerged as one country that has faced a growing set of challenges related to cyber-enabled fraud, online gambling, and related money laundering, with some linkages to criminal groups operating in Southeast Asia.”

It also notes that in late 2023 in, more than 40 Malaysians were rescued after being trafficked by a Taiwan-based gang known as the Red Dragon syndicate that forced them to commit cyber-enabled fraud.