Libs of TikTok’s targeted attacks against LGBTQ people and gender-affirming health care providers amount to stochastic terrorism. — For months now, Libs of TikTok has been at the forefront of the far-right’s disinformation campaign against the LGBTQ community, baselessly targeting and harassing queer and trans people and their allies. With more than a million Twitter followers, the account has not only contributed to the far-right’s anti-LGBTQ discourse, but…

Misinformation about monkeypox could have damaging consequences. — As monkeypox continues to spread across the U.S. and abroad, an increasing amount of misinformation about the disease is spreading along with it. Monkeypox is a viral disease transmitted through close physical contact with someone infected with the virus. This can include skin-to-skin contact and direct contact with bodily fluids…

Some TikTokers are using transphobic language to express anti-vaccine views — Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, anti-vax content has found its way to various social media platforms, and TikTok is no exception. But one phrase, in particular, has reached the app, and experts say it’s merging anti-vaccine messaging with transphobia. The term “transvaccinated” has been plastered across graphic T-shirts sold on eCommerce…

Activist Christopher Rufo told conservatives to make drag queens “more lurid” by peddling anti-trans rhetoric. — Just as he did with the terms “grooming” and “critical race theory,” conservative activist and Manhattan Institute fellow Christopher Rufo is once again playing the rhetoric game by co-opting and redefining words until they are completely devoid of their original meaning. In a series of tweets on Friday, Rufo laid…

Blaming everything but guns, Republicans reinvoke the enduring myth of the “good guy with a gun” after the Uvalde shooting. — In the wake of the tragic mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, Republican politicians and gun rights activists are clinging to their usual talking points, deflecting blame for the cause of mass shootings on anything other than the actual weapons themselves. At the National Rifle Association (NRA)…

Democrats must learn from Sen. Mallory McMorrow’s viral speech against the GOP’s anti-LGBTQ “grooming” lies. — Nearly two weeks ago, Michigan state Sen. Mallory McMorrow pushed back in a now viral speech against the GOP’s false and dangerous “grooming” lies. Responding to attacks against both herself and the LGBTQ community, McMorrow gave a powerful speech on the Michigan Senate floor admonishing Republican state Sen. Lana Theis…