There are No Girls on the Internet as a production of IHeart Radio and Unbossed Creative.

I'm Bridget Todd, and this is There Are No Girls on the Internet.

I'm here with my producer Mike, and here's what you may have missed this week on the internet.

So in news that will probably shock no one, it turns out Twitter, under Elon Musk, is not doing a very good job of dealing with anti-LGBQ hate speech on the platform.

Who would have guessed, am I right?

You know, savvy listeners might have guessed.

So this is all according to Glad's annual report

on the safety of social media platforms for LGBTQ users. Glad said that all five of the major

social media platforms examined had taken steps to improve safety over the past year, with the single

exception of Twitter. Twitter not only scored the lowest, but also changed its policies to become

even less safe. I got to say that one is sort of personal for me, policies that I personally

worked on in my platform accountability work. It was a little bit rough to see them rolled back,

but, you know, that is to be expected when you're dealing with somebody like

Elon Musk who just clearly does not take these issues seriously.

Sometimes it's easy to feel like progress is inevitable towards a more inclusive world where

we all recognize that other people are valuable and respect them. But that's not

something that is inevitable. And it is due to the hard work of people like you, Bridget, who push and

fight to make that positive change happen. And it's awesome when it does. And then there are times like this where there's a

reminder that there are counter forces who will push back against it. I say this and I mean it

pretty much how it sounds, that whenever a tech company does something good, nine times out of

10, it is not because they went to bed and woke up and

their hearts grew three sizes, like the Grinch's heart when it breaks out of that thing.

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