Six of the nation’s leading social media platforms are failing to keep LGBTQ users safe from online bullying and harassment and quell the spread of disinformation, according to a new report from GLAAD, an LGBTQ media advocacy group.

Now in its fifth year, GLAAD’s Social Media Safety Index evaluates policies and product features of TikTok, X, YouTube, and Meta’s Instagram, Facebook and Threads on more than a dozen LGBTQ-specific indicators, including whether platforms have public-facing policies against deadnaming and misgendering or regulations preventing users from engaging in hate speech that targets LGBTQ people.

The social media landscape has shifted drastically since the group published its first report in 2021, said Sarah Kate Ellis, GLAAD’s president and CEO, “with new and dangerous challenges in 2025.”

In January, Meta, owned by Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg, dropped some of its rules protecting LGBTQ people, allowing users to share “allegations of mental illness or abnormality when based on gender or sexual orientation, given political and religious discourse about transgenderism and homosexuality.”

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