OnlyFans accused of conspiring to blacklist rivals
Source: BBC
OnlyFans accused of conspiring to blacklist rivals
By Noel Titheradge
BBC News Investigations
22 February 2022
OnlyFans has been accused of conspiring to blacklist the social media accounts of adult performers working for rival websites, BBC News has learned.
Legal documents, previously unreported, claim OnlyFans directed an unidentified social media company to disable accounts of performers by placing their content on a terrorism database.
It is alleged that OnlyFans representatives paid bribes to the firm's employees to facilitate the practice. OnlyFans says it is aware of the legal claim and it has "no merit".
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FanCentro claims the social media content of adult performers promoting rival websites to OnlyFans were placed on an international database - the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism (GIFCT). The database uses advanced technology to stop the spread of terrorist images by recording a unique digital signature for them, known as "hashes".
The hash database is shared between all 18 members of the forum - including YouTube, Twitter, Facebook and Snapchat. ...
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