Digital giants including Amazon, Google, Meta (formerly Facebook), Microsoft, PayPal, Twitter, YouTube and Wikipedia have failed to clamp down on anti-LGBTQ disinformation about so-called ‘conversion therapy’, a global monitoring group has found.
Two new reports by the Global Project Against Hate and Extremism (GPAHE) found that search results in languages other than English were much more likely to include disinformation and hate speech. One Wikipedia entry in Swahili compares homosexuality to child rape.
GPAHE, which is based in the US, also said that social media bans for those promoting ‘conversion therapy’ are “toothless”.
