Personal Fb teams may be essentially the most enjoyable locations to exist on-line — however they will also be a bit harmful.

The “Are We Relationship the Similar Man?” Fb group is a web page designed for ladies who date males to get references on their male companions, warn different girls about “purple flags,” and see in the event that they’re relationship the identical man. However that web page is quite a bit much less enjoyable when you’re one of many guys. A lot much less enjoyable that one of many aforementioned guys is suing.

Nikko D’Ambrosio, a Chicago man, is suing 27 girls, one man, and a number of social media platforms together with Meta for “false and defamatory statements.” Whereas the Fb group describes itself as a “Crimson Flag Consciousness group throughout the nation the place girls can empower one another and maintain one another secure from poisonous males,” the grievance filed final week within the District Court docket for the Northern District of Illinois alleges that it maintains “a platform to allow girls to anonymously dox, defame, and assault the ethical character of males they’ve met on-line.”

D’Ambrosio went on a couple of dates and had consensual intercourse with a defendant — a relationship the grievance calls “unremarkable.” She posted him within the group asking for information from different girls. In response, some girls known as him “very clingy” and a “psycho.” One lady stated they went out however he ghosted her after they slept collectively. He and his attorneys requested the defendant to delete the put up, and she or he did. However, the grievance alleges, she reposted it below an nameless deal with.

He’s looking for $75,000 and likewise to cease the defendants from persevering with to put up within the “Are We Relationship the Similar Man?” Fb web page, Enterprise Insider reported.

Nobody outdoors the group is ever speculated to know in regards to the goings on contained in the group — however, as it’s the web, that hasn’t stopped them. Nothing stated in these posts is verifiable, and, as we all know, the posts themselves can affect an individual’s status, which, as Mashable beforehand reported, “appears to be the entire level, for higher or worse.”

It is not clear how this go well with will play out, but it surely’ll be attention-grabbing to see who’s held accountable for what is alleged in non-public teams on-line — and what sort of impact this can have on public speech and security on social media.