The second annual Social Media Safety Index (SMSI), a report on LGBTQ user safety across five major social media platforms: Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, and TikTok.<\/p>\n
The 2022 SMSI introduces a Platform Scorecard\u00a0<\/strong>developed by GLAAD in partnership with Ranking Digital Rights and Goodwin Simon Strategic Research. The Platform Scorecard utilizes twelve LGBTQ-specific indicators to generate numeric ratings with regard to LGBTQ safety, privacy, and expression. A listing of the indicators is available here and below. After reviewing the platforms on measures like explicit protections from hate and harassment for LGBTQ users, offering gender pronoun options on profiles, and prohibiting advertising that could be harmful and\/or discriminatory to LGBTQ people,\u00a0all platforms scored under a 50 out of a possible 100<\/strong>:<\/p>\n Detailed scores and a full list of Platform Scorecard indicators are available\u00a0here<\/a>. Indicators include:<\/p>\n \u201cToday\u2019s political and cultural landscapes demonstrate the real-life harmful effects of anti-LGBTQ rhetoric and misinformation online,\u201d said GLAAD President and CEO Sarah Kate Ellis. \u201cThe hate and harassment, as well as misinformation and flat-out lies about LGBTQ people, that go viral on social media are creating real-world dangers, from legislation that harms our community to the recent threats of violence at Pride gatherings. Social media platforms are active participants in the rise of anti-LGBTQ cultural climate and their only response should be to urgently create safer products and policies, and then enforce those policies.\u201d<\/p>\n GLAAD also released new data from a May 2022 study conducted with Community Marketing & Insights. 84% of LGBTQ adults agree there are not enough protections on social media to prevent discrimination, harassment, or disinformation. 40% of all LGBTQ adults, and 49% of transgender and nonbinary people, do not feel welcomed and safe on social media. Additionally, the newly released 2022 ADL Online Hate and Harassment report found that 66% of LGBTQ users experienced harassment online, with 54% of LGBTQ users reporting severe harassment including sustained harassment, stalking, or doxxing.<\/p>\n The Social Media Safety Index (SMSI) was created with support from Craig Newmark Philanthropies, the Gill Foundation, and Logitech. In addition to the Platform Scorecard, GLAAD\u2019s SMSI provides specific recommendations to each platform to improve LGBTQ safety. Additional trends reported in the SMSI include:<\/p>\n Recommendations across platforms include:<\/p>\n The May 2021 inaugural edition of the Index was the first-ever and only tech-industry baseline of LGBTQ user safety. In this past year, GLAAD has worked with platforms and applauded major achievements within the tech accountability space, including TikTok\u2019s amendment to its community guidelines in March 2022 in which\u00a0an explicit prohibition against targeted misgendering and deadnaming<\/a>\u00a0was enacted, per the 2021 SMSI\u2019s recommendation. As noted in this year\u2019s SMSI, such a prohibition does not exist on Facebook, Instagram, or YouTube.<\/p>\n Congressional hearings<\/a>,\u00a0alarming research findings<\/a>\u00a0of the spread of misinformation, and\u00a0massive media coverage<\/a>\u00a0have laid bare the urgent need for independent regulatory oversight of these companies \u2014 with virtually universal agreement about the need for industry-wide\u00a0transparency<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0accountability<\/a>. The GLAAD SMSI adds LGBTQ recommendations to this necessary and urgent dialogue. \u201cAll platforms should follow the lead of TikTok and Twitter and should immediately incorporate an explicit prohibition against targeted misgendering and deadnaming of transgender and non-binary people into hateful conduct policies,\u201d said GLAAD\u2019s Senior Director of Social Media Safety, Jenni Olson. \u201cThis recommendation remains an especially high priority in our current landscape where anti-trans rhetoric and attacks are so prevalent, vicious, and harmful. We also urge these companies to effectively moderate such content and to enforce these policies.\u201d<\/p>\n Read the full report here<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n ###<\/p>\n About GLAAD\u2019s Social Media Safety Program:\u00a0<\/strong>As the leading national LGBTQ media advocacy organization GLAAD is working every day to hold tech companies and social media platforms accountable, and to secure safe online spaces for LGBTQ people.\u00a0GLAAD\u2019s Social Media Safety program<\/a>\u00a0actively researches, monitors and reports on a variety of issues facing LGBTQ social media users \u2014 with a focus on safety, privacy and expression \u2014 advocating for solutions in numerous realms: online hate and harassment, AI bias, polarizing algorithms, data privacy, and more. 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\nTo create the Social Media Safety Index, GLAAD convened an Advisory Committee of thought leaders to advise on industry and platform-specific recommendations in the Index. Committee members include\u00a0ALOK<\/strong>, author, performer, and media personality;\u00a0Lucy Bernholz, Ph.D<\/strong>, Director, Digital Civil Society Lab at Stanford University;\u00a0Alejandra Caraballo, Esq.<\/strong>, Clinical Instructor, Cyberlaw Clinic, Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School;\u00a0Jelani Drew-Davi<\/strong>, Director of Campaigns, Kairos;\u00a0Liz Fong-Jones<\/strong>, Principal Developer Advocate for SRE & Observability, Honeycomb;\u00a0Evan Greer<\/strong>, Director, Fight for the Future;\u00a0Leigh Honeywell<\/strong>, CEO and Co-Founder, Tall Poppy;\u00a0Maria Ressa<\/strong>, Journalist & CEO, Rappler;\u00a0Tom Rielly<\/strong>, Founder, TED Fellows program, Digital Queers and PlanetOut.com;\u00a0Brennan Suen<\/strong>, Deputy Director of External Affairs, Media Matters for America;\u00a0Kara Swisher<\/strong>, contributing writer and host of the Sway podcast at\u00a0The New York Times.<\/em><\/p>\n