June 18, 2026 – We are writing to express our deep concern over both a video purporting to be an ad for the website OnlyFans posted to your platform, LinkedIn, on May 28, 2026, as well as LinkedIn’s hosting of a page presenting OnlyFans as an employer. We hereby ask you to remove both immediately.

OnlyFans is an adult industry entertainment website, which monetizes and profits from the pornography and prostitution of individuals it calls “content creators.” In the ad shared on LinkedIn, three anonymous young women wearing the OnlyFans logo speak directly to camera, explaining how OnlyFans has enriched their lives. “It has given me so much freedom […] Honestly, so much money to live my life the way that I want to,” one woman says.

 On its own LinkedIn page, OnlyFans boasts that they “…put power into the hands of creators by developing unparalleled opportunities for our community.” However, OnlyFans not only requires 20% of its “content creators’” revenues, it also benefits from processing the transactions from its more than 1.3 billion members and charging “creators” indirectly through revenue shares. OnlyFans operates like a pimp or third-party commercial sex exploiter.

The sex trade – which includes street prostitution, illicit “massage parlors,” strip clubs, “sugar dating,” escort agencies, and online platforms like OnlyFans –  targets the most vulnerable in our society, including young women who are in economic distress and many of whom have survived sexual abuse and violence.

A comprehensive 2024 study on individuals filmed for pornography production found that a striking 88% of participants reported experiencing childhood sexual abuse, 90% reported psychological abuse, and 79% reported physical abuse.

OnlyFans has a significant stake in luring young women and girls onto their platform, generating over $1.4 billion in net revenues in 2023.  However, telling young women that they can earn thousands or even millions of dollars on OnlyFans is unrealistic at best. One analysis suggests that the bottom 50% of OnlyFans “content creators” may earn as little as $136 per month after commissions. 

In pursuit of profit, OnlyFans’ well-funded marketing team preys on young women, following them into the spaces they know they can recruit and entice them – Instagram, TikTok, and now – LinkedIn. 

OnlyFans is a platform that could be found to knowingly facilitate sex trafficking and promote prostitution (e.g. pimping). For instance, the U.S.-based nonprofit Anti-Human Trafficking Intelligence Initiative (ATII) highlighted persistent indicators of child sexual abuse material (CSAM) and sex trafficking on OnlyFans.

In 2024, a Reuters investigation identified more than 140 police complaints of nonconsensual pornography on OnlyFans. Reuters also documented 30 complaints in police reports and court filings in which explicit images and videos of minors were sold on OnlyFans between December 2019 and June 2024. 

One of the most high-profile instances of exploitation via OnlyFans involves Andrew Tate, the self-proclaimed American-British misogynist influencer charged in both the United Kingdom and Romania with rape, human trafficking, and forming an organized crime group to sexually exploit women. Not only has Tate been accused of forcing his victims to perform on the OnlyFans account that he managed, he also trained countless other young men in how to groom women to “perform” on OnlyFans, via his “Pimping Hoes Degree (Ph.D.)” course.

These are just a few documented examples of the abuse and alleged crimes that occur on and through the OnlyFans platform. 

LinkedIn, as the world’s largest online professional network website, has a corporate responsibility to reject the platforming of pornographic sites, in this case OnlyFans, that foster sexual exploitation. 

LinkedIn has the power to be a leader in tech’s rejection of this growing, omnipresent misogyny and commodification of women. Countless individuals rely on LinkedIn as a portal to the professional world. They do not deserve to be met with dangerous propaganda from the sex trade. 

We urge LinkedIn to immediately remove this harmful content and remain vigilant in maintaining the integrity of its platform as one where everyone can seek safe and sustainable employment.   

To the public: If you want to take action, go to the OnlyFans page on LinkedIn and click the “More” icon to the right of “Message” and tap “Report abuse.”