OnlyFans Terrorism Scandal

[james]

OnlyFans squashed competitors in the online porn industry with the help of a bizarre scheme that bribed Meta employees to throw thousands of porn stars onto a terrorist watchlist, according to a group of explosive lawsuits.

Adult performers who sold X-rated photos and videos on rival sites saw their Instagram accounts falsely tagged as containing terrorist content — crippling their ability to promote their business and devastating their incomes, according to the suits.

Sellers of smutty pictures were then “shadowbanned” across Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and other sites, the suits allege. Targeted accounts also included businesses, celebrities, influencers and others who “have nothing to do with terrorism,” according to the suits.

“When I heard that my content may be listed on the terror watch list, I was outraged,” Alana Evans, an adult performer and one of the plaintiffs in the California suit alongside Kelly Pierce and others, told The Post. “I was angry because it affected my income when my social media traffic dropped significantly, and I was angry because I am the daughter of a veteran who fought for this country.”

Evans and others were all allegedly placed in a database of terror-linked accounts run by the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism, or GIFCT, a nonprofit group intended to stop the spread of mass shooting videos and other terrorist content across social media sites.

After adult performers who used rival sites allegedly had their names added to the GIFCT’s list, traffic to the rival sites drastically fell, the suits allege. Meanwhile, OnlyFans’ traffic and profits soared as the site became a household name.

https://nypost.com/2022/08/09/onlyfans-bribed-meta-to-put-thousands-of-porn-stars-on-terror-watchlist-suits-claim/

What the absolute fuck

[BIONIC]

Shonda reported each one individually for not going out with him.

[benjipwns]

I thought this list was secret, how'd they find out?

[Nintex]

This is what you get when the rule of law breaks down and only exists to attack (political) opponents

[Tasty]

I thought this list was secret, how'd they find out?

Presumably their lawyers were able to rattle something out of one or more of the tech companies that banned them. Or they talked to someone on the inside ("Hey, I'll give you nudes if you tell me why I was banned" will succeed on 95% of BigTech workers).

These filters are only going to become more pervasive and abused more and more in the future. I'm not sure what the best solution is for this kind of thing, it's messy.