Twitter and Facebook Fail to Enforce Anti-LGBTQ+ Bigotry Rules: Report
Twitter and Facebook are victimizing LGBTQ+ communities with digital hate. The Center for Countering Digital Hate and Human Rights Campaign released a new report Wednesday that finds both platforms are failing to enforce community standards following Florida’s ‘don’t say gay’ law.
As a result of Florida’s discriminatory law passing, extremist politicians and their allies launched an unprecedented and dangerous anti-LGBTQ+ misinformation campaign.
There has been an increase in discriminatory and inflammatory “grooming” content on social media, according to the report.Increasingly, digital media is being used to spread dangerous rumors about LGBTQ+ people, says Digital Hate: Social Media’s Role in Amplifying Dangerous Lies About LGBTQ+ People.
For example, a 406 percent increase was observed in tweets about LGBTQ+ people using slurs like “groomer” and “pedophile” after the passage of Florida legislation.
