The Los Angeles county district attorney's office had tweeted photos of its entry in a Pride parade, which was met with 'homophobic and transphobic slurs.'
A sign at Twitter headquarters is shown in San Francisco on Nov. 18, 2022.The Center for Countering Digital Hate, for instance, recently identified 1.7 million tweets and retweets since the start of 2022 that mention the LGBTQ+ community via a keyword such as “LGBT,” “gay,” “homosexual” or “trans” alongside slurs including “groomer,” “predator” and “pedophile.” In 2022, in the months before Musk took over, there were an average of 3,011 such tweets per day.
a policy against the “targeted misgendering or deadnaming of transgender individuals,” raising concerns that the platform is becoming less safe for marginalized groups. Musk has also repeatedly engaged with far-right figures and pushed misinformation to his 143 million followers.Twitter’s handling of tweets about a conservative media company’s documentary that questions medical treatment for transgender children and teens.
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