![]() In a statement to NBC News, Jon Lewis, the vice president of The Daily Wire, claimed the company has “always worked to comply with Facebook policy.” “So they can spread misinformation about, and also get a lot of clicks.” “They know that they can build outrage, they know that they can scare people, and they know that people don’t understand the issue very well,” Suen added. ![]() “It’s a very successful tactic for them.” “If you look at an analysis of headlines with the word ‘transgender’ in them, the most engaged-with website on that issue was The Daily Wire,” Suen said. Suen accused the social media titan of “blatantly” allowing The Daily Wire, a popular news outlet founded by conservative pundit Ben Shapiro, to break Facebook’s rules in order to make the site’s content go viral. media outlets, singled out Facebook as “one of the biggest bad actors.” He said much of the anti-trans rhetoric found on social media has been spread by far-right publications whose content has gone viral on the platform. “The conversations, how nasty they’ve turned, and how we’ve seen society really kind of polarized in the last few years, and we’ve seen trans communities be one of the scape goats that are thrown under that bus.”īrennan Suen, the LGBTQ program director for Media Matters, a progressive nonprofit that monitors and analyzes misinformation across U.S. "The scale of it is quite frightening, and it was quite shocking,” Toryn Glavin, a transgender advocate at the London-based LGBTQ nonprofit Stonewall, said of the report’s findings. Kevin TruongĪccording to a recent report from the anti-bullying organization Ditch the Label and its analytics partner, Brandwatch, 1.5 million (or 15 percent) of the 10 million transgender-related comments on social media platforms over a three and a half year period starting in 2016 were found to be transphobic. Trystan Reese, right, and Biff Chaplow with their children, from left, Riley, Leo and Hailey, in 2017. “We’re able to provide immediate, real-time, lifesaving support to transgender people and their families, any time of the day or night, but we are also open to more scrutiny and direct one-on-one harassment and abuse than ever before,” Reese said. Reese shared a similar sentiment, saying social media is “both the best thing that ever happened to the transgender community, and it’s also the worst.” Reese said the intentionally cruel posts mocked and misgendered them both and falsely claimed his friend was the biological parent of Reese’s child. This happy image, shared on Instagram by his friend, was then used without permission in a number of fake stories and memes that appeared across the internet. One example of this pervasive harassment involves a photo of Reese while pregnant along with a transgender woman friend. Over the past two and a half years, however, Reese - who lives in Portland, Oregon, with his husband and three children - has dealt with online transphobia and misinformation circulating about his family. Biff Chaplow, left, and Trystan Reese before the 2017 birth of their youngest child. “I was pretty excited for the opportunity to start to add more positive stories to the sort of public narrative around what it can mean to be transgender today,” Reese, whose pregnancy story was covered by NBC News and countless other news outlets in 2017, explained. Little did he know, he would face several years of “extreme backlash” for doing just that. Trystan Reese, a transgender man and community advocate, thought social media would be a great place to share his pregnancy story with the world.
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