Ina Fried

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Twitter refuses to remove Marjorie Taylor Greene’s transphobic tweets

Twitter on Monday labeled but refused to take down a pair of highly transphobic tweets attacking Adm. Rachel Levine, the assistant secretary for health for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Why it matters: Twitter has a practice of often labeling — but not removing — tweets from elected officials that would otherwise violate its terms of service. Details: The tweets, linked here, misgender Levine while also using extremely vile terminology to describe gender reassignment surgery. Twitter’s move means that people will have to click through a warning to view the tweets. Twitter will also limit sharing of the posts.  What they’re […]

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GLAAD finds top social media sites “categorically unsafe”

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The leading social media sites — Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, TikTok and YouTube — are all “categorically unsafe” for LGBTQ people, according to a new study from GLAAD, the results of which were revealed Sunday on “Axios on HBO.” The big picture: GLAAD had planned to give each of the sites a grade as part of its inaugural social media index, but opted not to give individual grades this year after determining all the leading sites would receive a failing grade. “They are categorically unsafe, across the board,” GLAAD president and CEO Sarah Kate Ellis said. The findings follow a several month effort […]