An anonymous whistleblower tip sent to Facebook last year contains a slew of accusations mirroring many of those found in an ongoing federal lawsuit facing Meta and OnlyFans. The anonymous tip, according to a copy provided to Gizmodo, was submitted more than six months before the lawsuit began.
The report, which makes allegations of bribery and deferential treatment toward OnlyFans content, was sent to Meta’s investigations team in Washington D.C. in August 2021 by a person claiming to work for the company in London. Beyond their location, the report offers few clues about the alleged employee’s duties, other than implying a close knowledge of Meta’s integrity operations.
“Certain employees are taking bribes to protect OnlyFans on the platform. This has been going on for months if not years,” the report states.
Similarly, a class-action suit, brought by attorney David Azar and three adult-entertainer clients in a California federal court this February, lays out an outrageous scheme involving multiple top executives accused of taking bribes to shield OnlyFans creators from Instagram and Facebook’s pornography-banning algorithms. What’s more, the suit says, Meta employees strove to blacklist OnlyFans rivals across the adult entertainment industry by, allegedly, submitting content they published to threat-detection databases used by major internet companies.
Meta, which had previously couched its denials around its legal arguments, firmly denied the allegations in the...
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