REDWOOD CITY, Calif. (Legal Newsline) - A platform for adult entertainment has filed a class action lawsuit against Facebook that calls the social media giant "a corrupt business."
JFF Publications, which operates JustFor.Fans filed suit Feb. 23 in California's San Mateo County Superior Court. It is represented by David Azar of Milberg Coleman in Beverly Hills.
The suit argues Meta Platforms subsidiaries Facebook and Instagram have colluded with OnlyFans, a similar adult-entertainment website as JustFor.Fans. This illegal partnership has destroyed a once competitive market, the suit says.
"The deletion and hiding of posts, and reduction in social media traffic for certain providers, was so substantial and so dramatic that it could not have been the result of filtering by human reviewers of social media content," the lawsuit says.
"The business lifeblood of certain (adult-entertainment) providers and AE platforms appeared to be blocked so consistently that only automated processes could be responsible."
But in this wasteland of AE content, performers associated exclusively with OnlyFans thrived, the suit says.
"As a result, OnlyFans began to grow incrementally, and then exponentially - rocketing up the internet traffic rankings - and quickly became one of the most dominant players in the adult industry while most of OnlyFans' competitors stagnated or saw dramatically reduced traffic and revenue."