OnlyFans lawyers accidentally reveal which Meta execs allegedly took bribes
Enlarge / Nick Clegg, Meta's vice president of global policy. (credit: NurPhoto / Contributor | NurPhoto)
When adult entertainers initially filed a lawsuit alleging that OnlyFans bribed Meta to block competitors on Instagram by flagging their content as terrorism, it was not clear who at Meta was being accused of accepting bribes.
That changed this week when lawyers for OnlyFans' owner Fenix International Limited accidentally filed a court document that mistakenly failed to redact the names of Meta employees allegedly connected to the global conspiracy. Because of the misstep, it has been revealed that adult entertainers have specifically accused two Meta executives of taking bribes. The employees are Nick Clegg (Meta's vice president of global policy), Nicola Mendelsohn (vice president of the global business team), and Cristian Perrella (whom Yahoo Finance reported is Meta's European safety director).
According to the errant court filing-which was OnlyFans' second attempt to push the court to dismiss the lawsuit-lawyers for plaintiffs suing Meta and OnlyFans received an email with a document titled Follow the Money" through a confidential tip line. The document allegedly shows that Fenix wired money to Clegg, Mendelsohn, and Perrella, suggesting that these wire transfers provided evidence that the Meta employees accepted bribes.