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.

Stonewall at 40 Resource Kit

On the morning of June 28, 1969, a group of patrons at the Stonewall Inn – a New York city bar that was a frequent target of police raids because it catered to the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community – fought back against police brutality and harassment. Their uprising set in motion a wave of activism among LGBT people that put the issue of LGBT civil rights on the American political map. This resource kit will help journalists cover the 40th anniversary of this momentous event in the history LGBT rights.

Announcing Equality: Inclusive Newspapers List 2008

Father’s Day Resource Kit

GLAAD is encouraging journalists to include gay, bisexual and transgender fathers and their families, as well as straight dads that have LGBT children in media coverage of Father’s Day. This toolkit provides potential story ideas and suggestions on how make Father’s Day coverage more inclusive.

Prom Resource Kit

For many lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender students, the excitement of prom season may be overwhelmed by concerns that they may not feel welcome, or worse, might be actively excluded from prom. This toolkit will help journalists craft prom coverage that integrates the experiences of LGBT youth into stories.