tom sayers

Queer People Are in the Midst of a Painful Social Media Migration

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March 7, 2025

Moving on isn’t easy—even if that’s just online. Exactly two months after Zuck announced a new, watered-down hateful confuct policy for Meta, I present to you the stories of three people who have been forced to find new digital homes in response.

In this new piece from me for Slate, I spoke queer netizens who have chosen to push back how they can on a policy which expressly allows users to call us mentally ill, or call for the exclusion of the LGBTQIA community from significant areas of public life, and the impact this has had on their lives.