According to GLAAD, social networks are still not doing enough to safeguard LGBTQ people against abuse. As the media monitoring organization has just published its 2nd Social Media Safety Index and has given very bad scores to Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Twitter, and YouTube after examining their LGBTQ-oriented features and policies.

Although GLAAD did find that all these platforms still have strong policy commitments and board hateful ads, these actions don’t live up to the goals. The 5 platforms have not done anything enough to restrict anti-LGBTQ content, also falling short of gender pronoun options, They’re also not provided adequate moderator training and minimizing takedowns of legitimate content. while not doing enough to protect the privacy of gender identity and sexual orientation data.

Facebook and Instagram are the only two social media networks that promise sufficient shielding LGBTQ users from harm. All these five social media networks did defend their current approaches and statements. Meta said that they barred dehumanizing and violent anti-LGBTQ material. Twitter said that they already worked with GLAAD and were discussing the new recommendations, and YouTube says that they made significant progress in pulling harmful videos, while TikTok did highlight their anti-hate policies and recent tools to promote kinder comments.

There are still significant gaps in these protections, and GLAAD is still hoping this safety index will pressure these companies to act, and that regulators will step in to demand greater accountability for these big social media networks to protect their LGBTQ audience, which is a very big number of users out there being harassed and need protection from these dehumanizing comments.