Meta, X, and YouTube’s Scores Hit New Lows in GLAAD’s Sixth Annual LGBTQ Social …

GLAAD announced today the findings of the sixth annual Social Media Safety Index (SMSI), its yearly evaluation of public-facing policies related to LGBTQ safety, privacy, and expression across six major social media platforms: TikTok, YouTube, X, and Meta’s Facebook, Instagram, and Threads. Read the full report here. Notable highlights of this year’s report: With the exception of TikTok, 2026 platform scores dropped across the board and have hit historic lows. Both Meta and YouTube continue to maintain their 2025 anti-LGBTQ policy changes, which have made their platforms more toxic and harmful for LGBTQ users, notably transgender and gender non-conforming people. Both companies have also retreated from best practices in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI). X continues to rank last among all platforms evaluated, declining to a 29 (out of 100) score. Meta’s early-2025 anti-LGBTQ policy changes included: modifying major sections of its Hateful Conduct policy to allow anti-LGBTQ rhetoric and removing key protections for LGBTQ people globally, especially transgender people; utilizing anti-LGBTQ terminology to refer to LGBTQ people in its Community Standards; terminating its Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) programs; deleting trans and nonbinary themes on Messenger; and ending its fact-checking program in the U.S. As documented in last year’s
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