Anti-trans hate is ‘widespread’ on Facebook, Instagram and Threads, report warns

Meta is failing to implement its personal guidelines in opposition to anti-trans hate speech on its platform, a new report from GLAAD warns. The LGBTQ advocacy group discovered that “excessive anti-trans hate content material stays widespread throughout Instagram, Fb, and Threads.”

The report paperwork dozens of examples of hate speech from Meta’s apps, which GLAAD says have been reported to the corporate between June 2023 and March 2024. However although the posts seemed to be clear violations of the corporate’s insurance policies, “Meta both replied that posts weren’t violative or just didn’t take motion on them,” GLAAD says.

The reported content material included posts with anti-trans slurs, violent and dehumanizing language and promotions for conversion remedy, all of that are barred below Meta’s guidelines. GLAAD additionally notes that a few of the posts it reported got here from influential accounts with giant audiences on Fb and Instagram. GLAAD additionally shared two examples of posts from Threads, Meta’s latest app the place the corporate has tried to tamp down “political” content material and different “potentially sensitive” matters.

“The corporate’s ongoing failure to implement their very own insurance policies in opposition to anti-LGBTQ, and particularly anti-trans hate, is solely unacceptable,” GLAAD’s CEO and President Sarah Kate Ellis stated in a statement.

Meta didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark. However GLAAD’s report isn’t the primary time the corporate has confronted criticism for its dealing with of content material concentrating on the LGBTQ group. Final yr the Oversight Board urged Meta to “enhance the accuracy of its enforcement on hate speech in the direction of the LGBTQIA+ group.”