Major social media platforms such as X, TikTok, and Instagram are failing to protect LGBTQ users from hate and harassment after intentionally rolling back previous safety practices, according to GLAAD’s annual Social Media Safety Index.
Out now: GLAAD’s 2025 Social Media Safety Index illuminates how tech companies have intentionally rolled back safety policies for LGBTQ people. Platforms have received critically low scores, and this year’s findings are especially concerning.
[image or embed] — GLAAD (@glaad.bsky.social) May 13, 2025 at 6:36 AM
Via AP News:
The report said that recent “unprecedented hate speech policy rollbacks” from Instagram and Facebook parent Meta Platforms and 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.
Related: Meta’s Relaxed Guidelines Allow Anti-LGBTQ Hate Speech
Read GLAAD’s full report here. 
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