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FORGOTTEN HISTORY: Mindgeek - Caught on Camera

Pornhub is owned by a Canadian company. Could the owners block US access to protest Trump’s takeover hopes?

Pornhub’s troubled parent company MindGeek, since rebranded as Aylo, was acquired by Montreal-based Ethical Capital Partners equity group in March 2023

The Independent UK

An activist tried to take down trafficking on Pornhub. Did she do more harm than good?

Anti-trafficking Laila Mickelwait’s Traffickinghub campaign helped inspire lawsuits, investigations, and policy changes to eliminate videos rooted in abuse from making it onto Pornhub. So why is she so controversial? Josh Marcus reports.

The Independent UK

Can Porn Ever Be Ethical?

The new owners of one of the world’s largest adult sites are determined to make the company—and the rest of the industry—safer

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Former teen beauty queen claims she was sex-trafficked and forced into porn

Kirsty Althaus claims she was raped, drugged and sex trafficked in a lawsuit bought against pornography platforms, yet another woman who was affected by Girls Do Porn

The Independent UK

NYC Kebab Shop Finds Copyright Claim From Pornhub Hard To Swallow

The porn company sent the East Village eatery a cease and desist letter saying their logo is likely to cause confusion.

Zenger

Pornhub has just started the year's most ridiculous logo battle

...against a kebab shop.

Creative Bloq

Collateral damage in the war on sex trafficking

Gwen Adora said it was 2018 when she started uploading videos of herself to Pornhub, one of the Internet’s biggest sites for adult content. She used the money to pay her bills while pursuing a bachelor’s in communications and multimedia studies. By posting videos users would pay to see, she…

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The co-founder of a Canadian private equity firm explains why he just acquired the internet's biggest adult entertainment site

Solomon Friedman of Ethical Capital Partners tells Fortune he sees big potential in the site—and even more in the tech that powers the sites.

Fortune

Pornhub purchased by private equity firm hoping to take the site in a new direction

Mindgeek, an IT company which owns Pornhub, was purchased Thursday by the private equity firm Ethical Capital Partners.

Tribune News Service

Netflix’s Pornhub documentary glosses over one major thing: the fetishisation of childlike bodies

While ‘Money Shot’ reveals how Pornhub attempted to eradicate child pornography from the site, writes Ellie Muir, it skims over the worrying fact that many porn narratives are built on the omission of consent and the sexualisation of children

The Independent UK

Pornhub 'extremely good' at harvesting users' information, Netflix documentary warns

The revealing programme explained that PornHub owners MindGeek gathers data like Facebook

Wales Online

French minister to raise protection of minors with Pornhub's new owners

A French government minister will meet the new owners of the pornography website Pornhub to ensure minors are protected and that the site does not break any laws, he said on his Twitter account on Friday.

Reuters

Pornhub owner MindGeek sold to private equity firm

Buyer Ethical Capital Partners targets industries requiring ‘principled ethical leadership’

The Guardian - UK

Pornhub parent company is acquired by Canadian private equity fund

The company that owns pornographic video-streaming platform Pornhub is being acquired by a new private equity firm based in the Canadian capital of Ottawa.

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Al Jazeera

Pornhub owner MindGeek bought by Canadian private equity firm

Sale of adult site comes after controversy over hosting of child abuse material and other non-consenual content.

The Independent UK

Netflix’s Pornhub documentary glosses over one major thing: the fetishisation of childlike bodies

The Guardian - US

‘The story is really complicated’: inside the controversial world of Pornhub

A Netflix documentary aims to show all sides of a politicized battle between protecting and destroying a long-running porn site and its many workers

The Guardian - UK

MPs urge crackdown on pornography to tackle violence against women

All-party group says there is extensive evidence that consuming pornography fuels sexual violence

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The Guardian - UK

Pornhub partners with child abuse charities to intercept illegal activity

The world’s largest adult website will generate a pop-up if users input one of 28,000 key words linked to the abuse of children

Input

Visa and Mastercard pause Pornhub advertising buys over child porn concerns

An ongoing lawsuit accuses Visa of knowingly facilitating the distribution of child pornography on MindGeek properties.

Financial Times

Visa and Mastercard cut ties with ad arm of Pornhub owner MindGeek

Court ruling in lawsuit alleging profits from illegal content lead credit card issuers to distance themselves from TrafficJunky

Benzinga

Pornhub Parent Company's CEO, COO Resign: What Forced Them To Leave?

MindGeek, the internet company that operates the Pornhub platform, has announced the resignations of CEO Feras Antoon and COO David Tassillo.

The Guardian - US

Internet porn executives resign after revelations the company’s sites hosted underage videos

CEO and COO of Mindgeek insist their departures are unrelated to the New Yorker’s reporting

Input

Pornhub parent company CEO and COO resign amid continued scandal

Mindgeek has been mired in controversy for years.

The Guardian - UK

Age checks needed urgently to protect children from online porn, say charities

Safety experts call for immediate action to stop millions of underage viewers being damaged by extreme material

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