Bar­ba­di­an busi­ness­man, Charles Char­lie Spice Lewis has filed a law­suit against Meta Plat­forms Inc., seek­ing US$50 mil­lion in com­pen­sato­ry dam­ages.

The on­line pub­li­ca­tion, Bar­ba­dos TO­DAY, re­port­ed Wednes­day that Lewis and his US-reg­is­tered dig­i­tal com­pa­ny, Spice Hold­ings, is seek­ing dam­ages af­ter the own­ers of Face­book and What­sApp abrupt­ly sus­pend­ed and delet­ed sev­er­al of Spice Hold­ings’ key busi­ness ac­counts, caus­ing ma­jor dis­rup­tion to glob­al op­er­a­tions.

Lewis, rep­re­sent­ed by Inn Cham­bers in Bar­ba­dos, said the af­fect­ed ac­counts were tied to In­sta­Jobs Live (In­sta­Jobs.Live), a re­al-time livestream plat­form con­nect­ing job seek­ers with em­ploy­ers and re­cruiters.