Jonathan Tasini, a union activist and one time Huffington Post blogger, has filed a $105 million suit against HuffPo and AOL, claiming the media companies unfairly profited on content created by an army of unpaid freelancers. "The Huffington Post is nothing without the bloggers who created the content," said Tasini, who is seeking class-action status on behalf of more 9,000 writers in the wake of AOL’s purchase of the liberal news and opinion site. A HuffPo spokesman said the suit, which also names as defendants the site’s co-founders, Arianna Huffington and Kenneth Lerer, was “wholly without merit.” Slate’s Jack Shafer argued the move “proves that we're becoming a nation of Winklevosses who file legal motion after legal motion every time a pot of money is spotted.”
