OnlyFans Bribed Meta to Put Thousands of Adult Entertainers on Terrorist Watch List, Lawsuits Allege

[ItsjustMe]

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Major tech companies have faced no shortage of criticism in recent months, as chat logs and metadata become ever-more relevant tools in prosecutors’ cases against people who have abortions. Now, Meta (formerly Facebook) is facing multiple lawsuits for allegedly accepting bribes to put adult entertainers on a terrorist watch list. Yes, you read that right.

OnlyFans, the subscriber content platform that is most well known for adult content, allegedly took drastic measures in 2018 to stop models and entertainers who use its service promoting from rival platforms that also feature their content. Three lawsuits—two from rival platforms and one class-action suit from OnlyFans content creators—say that the website bribed Meta to put over 20,000 names and social media accounts on a watch list managed by the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism (GIFCT), a non-profit intended to “stop the spread of mass shooting videos and other terrorist content across social media sites” that was co-founded by Meta, Microsoft, Twitter and YouTube.

It only takes one site among this group to flag something as being “terrorist-related,” which then gives them a digital print, or a “hash.” As a result, the OnlyFans users who have been “hashed” are effectively “shadow banned,” significantly reducing their visibility on websites other than OnlyFans.

[Skittles]

1. it stinks how many people have been sucked into the FB Borg

STOP SUPPORTING THEM

[RockRaven]

2. All else aside, this is believable solely based on FB/Meta's history of sleazy behavior.

FB/Meta is a lot like TFG in terms of prior plausibility when one hears a new accusation, before one even has a chance to do a deep dive on the evidence. Their record is very much against them.