2025 Social Media Safety Index

2025 Social Media Safety Index Platform Scorecard

The 2025 SMSI Platform Scorecard consists of 14 indicators that draw on best practices from the Ranking Digital Rights (RDR) Big Tech Scorecard, the highly-respected evaluation of the world’s most powerful digital platforms on their policies and practices affecting people’s rights to freedom of expression and privacy. All evaluations are conducted looking at the public-facing policies of each platform. While results have global implications for LGBTQ safety, privacy, and expression online, our analysis is based on the English-language versions of public-facing policies and documents covering the U.S. market. Additional methodology information is available in the Research Guidance. The full list of indicators and elements used in the evaluation process is available here. Please also see the important contextual note about the 2025 Platform Scorecard and Methodology Changes.

The Platform Scorecard evaluates six major social media platforms: Facebook, Instagram, and Threads (whose parent company is Meta); TikTok (parent company: ByteDance); YouTube (parent company: Alphabet/Google), and X.

2019 GLAAD Studio Responsibility Index

The GLAAD Studio Responsibility Index (SRI) maps the quantity, quality and diversity of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) characters in films released by the seven major motion picture studios during the 2018 calendar year. GLAAD researched films released by 20th Century Fox, Lionsgate, Paramount Pictures, Sony Pictures, Universal Pictures, Walt Disney Studios and Warner Bros., as well as films released by four subsidiaries of these major studios. The report is intended to serve as a road map toward increasing fair, accurate and inclusive LGBTQ representation in film.

Where We Are On TV Report 2018 – 2019

The Where We Are on TV report analyzes the overall diversity of primetime scripted series…

2018 GLAAD Studio Responsibility Index

The GLAAD Studio Responsibility Index (SRI) maps the quantity, quality and diversity of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) people in films released by the seven major motion picture studios during the 2017 calendar year. GLAAD researched films released by 20th Century Fox, Lionsgate Entertainment, Paramount Pictures, Sony Pictures, Universal Pictures, Walt Disney Studios and Warner Brothers, as well as films released by four subsidiaries of these major studios. The report is intended to serve as a road map toward increasing fair, accurate and inclusive LGBTQ representation in film.

More Than a Number – Shifting the Media Narrative on Transgender Homicides

The More Than a Number Report is an advanced reporting guide for journalists and advocates to accompany our Doubly Victimized Guide. It reflects that many more reporters are now covering the homicides of transgender people in the U.S. but there is still a lot of work to do to improve coverage. The biggest hurdle, in this report’s thesis, is to shift from the “deadliest year ever” headlines into a more accurate and respectful framing of lives lost.

Read the report