The group alleges that the platform and its human moderators seek out and remove content that contains words like “gay,” “lesbian” and “bisexual,” preventing them from being able to sell ads and gain subscribers. The suit was filed Tuesday evening against YouTube and its parent firm, Google. (Washington Post)

Talking point: YouTube has faced a series of discrimination allegations from the LGBTQ+ community in recent months. In June, Carlos Maza, a Vox host, accused YouTube of failing to enforce its anti-hate-speech policies, as it demonetized but did not remove commentator Steven Crowder’s channel from its platform, even though he repeatedly used racist and homophobic slurs toward Maza on it. Google workers protested their firm’s policies at a San Francisco Pride Parade later that month. In one of its arguments, this lawsuit uses an issue that U.S. regulators are already reviewing Google for: antitrust. The plaintiffs allege Google’s “monopoly power over content regulation” allowed it to get an unfair advantage for profit, to the disadvantage of its customers.