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@benjamineskola@hachyderm.io @osma@mas.to @neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.uk To be clear, while this article is focused on teen girls, this is the stuff every minority sees on social media as well. I'm trans. I have to actually relegate myself to only small corners of the internet because everywhere else feels so unsafe. Meta no longer considers slurs and harassment of trans people as "against their policies." So any Meta platform is insufferable for me now. Twitter actually encourages harassment of trans people and made the word "cis" a bannable offense. And if I stray too far from the queer spaces of Reddit, I'll get called a man and doxxed pretty quickly. I've been doxxed while using Insta in the past simply for existing as a trans person. But the algorithm is the problem here. It's force feeding hate to kids and teaching them that it's good to hate. Monetizing hate is the issue and is what should be regulated.