In the wake of a devastating index of LGBTQ user safety online — which found the giant social media sites are "effectively unsafe" due to harassment of, and misinformation about, the queer community — GLAAD has hired a lesbian Bay Area tech pioneer and filmmaker as its new social media safety program director.
Jenni Olson, a lesbian who lives in Berkeley, spearheaded the report, which the Bay Area Reporter covered May 25. GLAAD's first index of LGBTQ user safety found widespread misinformation and discrimination on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube.
Olson said she's been involved with the issue for months. "I started working on it last year, I guess in May, so it was pretty much a year in the making," Olson said.