Letter Organized By GLAAD And HRC Calls On Social Media CEOs To Take Action On Disinformation About Transgender Healthcare And Malicious Anti-LGBTQ Narratives
deadline.comMore than 250 LGBTQ and ally actors, notables, and other leaders signed a public letter created by GLAAD and the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) calling on Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, TikTok, and Twitter to better enforce hate speech, harassment, misinformation, and other existing content policies aimed at protecting transgender, nonbinary, and gender non-conforming users and all LGBTQ people.
The full letter and list of signatories can be found here. GLAAD collaborated with acclaimed writer, performer, and media personality ALOK on outreach for the letter. “True allies do not profit from anti-LGBTQ hate,” the letter begins.
It continues: “There has been a massive systemic failure to prohibit hate, harassment, and malicious anti-LGBTQ disinformation on your platforms and it must be addressed.
The very content you profit from is in violation of your own terms of service, which assert that you do not allow hate speech.” Addressed to CEOs Mark Zuckerberg (Instagram and Facebook), Neal Mohan (YouTube), Shou Zi Chew (TikTok), and Linda Yaccarino & Elon Musk (Twitter), this powerful line-up of more than 250 LGBTQ people and allies call on each platform to urgently take action to protect trans and LGBTQ users by creating and enforcing stronger content and ad policies against hate speech and harassment, instituting better protections against over-enforcement and censorship, as well as meeting with community leaders and creators to hear about real world harms that result from anti-trans content.
