GLAAD recently announced the findings of its first-ever index of LGBTQ user safety on social media, determining that Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube are "effectively unsafe" due to harassment of, and misinformation about, the queer community.
The original plan had been to give each platform a letter grade, according to GLAAD, the New York-based LGBTQ media watchdog group, but this was scrapped when staffers realized that the leading social media platforms would have all received an F.
GLAAD President and CEO Sarah Kate Ellis stated that while other marginalized communities are being considered in conversations about the restriction and regulation of social media speech and other content, "the unique needs of LGBTQ people