Rise in anti-LGBTQ+ content on Meta platforms since rollback of protections: GLAAD study
"We found stark evidence of increased harmful content, decreased freedom of expression, and increased (self-)censorship,” GLAAD's report says.
June 16, 2025
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Meta AI tilts right, recommends conversion therapy: report
Meta's Llama 4 AI faces backlash for recommending conversion therapy, raising concerns about bias in its design. GLAAD calls out the dangerous practice.
April 22, 2025
What LGBTQ+ people should know about Meta’s new rules
Exploring the consequences of rolling back Instagram and Facebook’s content moderation policies.
January 7, 2025
From Meta to X, most major social media companies are failing LGBTQ+ users: GLAAD
Most of the top social media companies got an 'F' grade on GLAAD’s 2024 Social Media Safety Index. Of the major platforms, TikTok was the only one to pass with a dismal D+ grade.
May 21, 2024
Former Marine sentenced for Planned Parenthood firebombing also targeted Dodger Stadium Pride Night
The disgraced neo-Nazi Marine and his civilian accomplices hated all non-white people and hoped to start a race war, authorities say.
April 17, 2024
Racist homophobes who threatened Prince Harry are sentenced for encouraging terrorism
Podcasters Christopher Gibbons and Tyrone Patten-Walsh had said the prince and his young son should be killed, and they made many racist, homophobic, and otherwise bigoted statements.
January 5, 2024
Candace Owens Suspended Again by YouTube for Anti-LGBTQ+ Content
The far-right commentator's recent remarks include blaming gay men for sexual abuse in the Catholic Church.
September 18, 2023
These are the top 10 European countries for LGBTQ+ rights and travel
ILGA-Europe's annual Rainbow Map highlights where it's safer to live and travel for LGBTQ+ individuals and their families.
May 16, 2025
JD Vance wants the UK to repeal its LGBTQ+ hate speech laws to secure a trade deal
An anonymous White House advisor said JD Vance is “obsessed by the fall of Western civilization."
April 17, 2025
Mark Zuckerberg announces Facebook & Instagram will be more like X in second Trump term
Meta will no longer have independent fact-checkers and less content moderation, the CEO announced.
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January 7, 2025
Polish state TV host: Our anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric was shameful
With Poland under a new, more liberal government, TV host Wojciech Szeląg is apologizing for years of spreading homophobia.
February 13, 2024
Nearly All LGBTQ+ Youth Exposed to Online Bullying: HRC Report
Only about 4 percent of LGBTQ+ youth said they hadn't encountered online bullying or hate.
November 6, 2023
Homophobia Rears Its Head at Chili Cook-Off at California County Fair
Someone harassed a gay couple in the competition with homophobic slurs and ran a vehicle over their supplies.
August 30, 2023
Lady Gaga's Brazil concert faced a bomb plot targeting the LGBTQ+ community. Here's everything we know
Two people were arrested in Brazil for allegedly planning to bomb Lady Gaga's free concert.
May 5, 2025
Meta Oversight Board rules anti-transgender videos don't violate hate speech rules
Meta's Oversight Board allowed transphobic posts after executives warned they should be “treated carefully ... given the fraught political debate.”
April 24, 2025
Donald Trump's policies are making our kids dumber, sicker, meaner, and scared
Opinion: Trump has never seemed to be a fan of children, and his egregious actions towards them prove that targeting kids is part of his grand retribution tour, writes John Casey.
March 14, 2025
Nancy Pelosi on who will win, Mike Johnson’s threat to ax Obamacare, and the rise of anti-LGBTQ+ hate
Pelosi also said that the sentence her husband’s attacker received was a “very, very good decision,” but that the family continues to suffer from the horrible incident.
October 30, 2024
A neighborhood approach to combating hate crimes in Los Angeles
“Because of our past conduct in law enforcement, and the government, there’s this built-in distrust of us, which to be frank, we’ve earned,” one police official said.
June 3, 2024
Third lesbian killed after boardinghouse arson attack in Argentina
The attack has sent a chill through Argentina’s LGBTQ+ community.
May 13, 2024
GLAAD demands Mark Zuckerberg public statement on Facebook’s anti-trans content moderation failure
Following a critical Oversight Board report on Meta’s handling of anti-trans Facebook content, GLAAD has urged the Meta CEO to address the company’s content moderation policies publicly.
January 18, 2024
Meta has guidelines to protect against anti-trans content. GLAAD says the company is ignoring them
The social media company has failed to protect LGBTQ+ users from bigoted harassment, GLAAD says.