"Our community is at disproportionate risk for harassment online, which itself has damaging impacts and can also lead to offline harms"
Co-chair of Michigan’s Republican party, referred to the first openly gay cabinet secretary as a “weak little girl”
Cole has become the poster child for far-right politicians and religious conservatives working to ban these lifesaving medical treatments
One msg deadnames her & promises to “beat [her] to death” and “record your dying screams and moans and masturbate to them.”
GLAAD’s annual Social Media Safety Index gave Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Twitter, and YouTube failing scores on LGBTQ safety
GLAAD has reached out to Meta, TikTok, and YouTube to add similar information and resources to searches related to monkeypox
Human Rights Campaign & Center for Countering Digital Hate warn of growing influence extremists are wielding online
“Online hate & lies reinforce offline violence. The normalization of anti-LGBTQ+ narratives in digital spaces puts LGBTQ+ people in danger”
TikTok & Meta, parent company to Facebook/Instagram, also say that calling LGBTQ people “groomers” is a violation of their existing policies
Greene has promoted baseless QAnon conspiracy theories & has a standing record of hateful abusive comments directed towards LGBTQ people
