- A person is suing 27 girls over feedback about him on an “Are We Courting the Identical Man” Fb group.
- Within the feedback, he was described as a “psycho,” “very clingy,” and accused of ghosting girls.
- In his criticism, the person claimed the group triggered injury to each his fame and funds.
A Chicago man is suing 27 girls, one man, and a number of social media platforms over damaging posts about relationship him on an “Are We Courting the Identical Man” Fb group.
In a criticism filed Monday within the District Court docket for the Northern District of Illinois, Nikko D’Ambrosio claimed that he had been the topic of defamation, doxxing, and privateness invasion, amongst different allegations.
404 Media was the primary to report on the lawsuit.
D’Ambrosio is looking for damages exceeding $75,000 and injunctive aid to forestall the defendants from persevering with to publish statements about him on the Chicago subgroup of the “Are We Courting the Identical Man?’ Fb web page.
The Fb group in query is a part of a community of “Are We Courting the Identical” teams that enable customers to debate damaging relationship encounters with males of their native communities.
Subgroups exist for a lot of main metropolitan areas throughout the US and Canada.
In response to the criticism, “Are We Courting the Identical” as soon as self-described itself as a “Purple Flag Consciousness group” aimed toward safeguarding girls from “poisonous males.”
The Chicago sub-group, which has greater than 80,000 members, now describes itself as defending girls, “not judging males.”
D’Ambrosio’s criticism alleges that hundreds of males have been “doubtlessly defamed,” some with out even figuring out they’re the topic of disparaging posts, whereas including that there is no such thing as a fact-checking of statements put out by customers.
In D’Ambrosio’s case, he says within the criticism {that a} lady he had consensual intercourse with posted {a photograph} of him on the group.
In response to the submit, feedback from a number of girls labeled him a “psycho,” and “very clingy,” with one accusing him of ghosting her after they slept collectively.
Demanding a trial by jury, D’Ambrosio alleged within the criticism that the submit and subsequent feedback triggered him humiliation, emotional misery, and reputational injury, and resulted in unspecified misplaced earnings.
The lawsuit additionally names a number of divisions of the Meta company as defendants, accusing the corporate of cashing in on promoting on pages displaying defamatory and invasive content material.
Different defendants embrace Patreon, the arewedatingthesame.com web site, and GoFundMe.
The group’s founder, Paola Sanchez, additionally named as a defendant, launched a GoFundMe final yr to create an app.
Sanchez, GoFundMe, Meta, and Patreon didn’t instantly reply to Enterprise Insider’s requests for feedback, which have been despatched exterior of working hours.
Trent Legislation Agency, representing D’Ambrosio, additionally didn’t instantly reply to BI.
Vice reported final yr on the challenges of the ‘Are We Courting the Identical Man’ teams, noting that whereas they needed to crowdsource girls’s security, persons are typically unable to defend themselves and girls do not all the time corroborate their tales.
