GLAAD

This report synthesizes findings from academic and industry research, civil society documentation, journalism, and GLAAD’s own monitoring to provide a comprehensive examination of AI’s impacts on LGBTQ people. Key findings include:

GLAAD, the world’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer media advocacy organization announced the findings of its fifth annual Social Media Safety Index, an annual report on LGBTQ safety, privacy, and expression. The in-depth report analyzes six major social media platforms—TikTok, YouTube, X, and Meta’s Facebook, Instagram, and Threads—across 14 indicators, which address a range of issues affecting LGBTQ people online, including data privacy, moderation transparency, training of content moderators, and workforce diversity.

All five major social media platforms—Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube and Twitter—received low and failing scores for the second consecutive year. The platforms continue to fail at enforcing the safeguarding of LGBTQ users from online hate speech, fail at providing transparency in the use of LGBTQ-specific user data and fail in expressing commitments to protecting LGBTQ users, specifically, policies and commitments to protect transgender, nonbinary, and gender non-conforming users from being targeted. Twitter is the most dangerous platform for LGBTQ people.

The Where We Are on TV report analyzes the overall diversity of primetime scripted series regulars on broadcast networks and looks at the number of LGBTQ characters on cable networks and streaming services for the 2017-2018 TV season.