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Pornhub

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63 articles decelerating

Pornhub has appeared in 63 articles since 2016-03. Coverage peaked in 2026Q1 with 3 articles. Frequently mentioned alongside Aylo, MindGeek, Mastercard, Visa.

Articles
63
mentions
Velocity
-66.7%
growth rate
Acceleration
-0.667
velocity change
Sources
23
publications

Coverage Timeline

2025-05-11
New York Times

Court filing: internal docs show Pornhub had 706,000 videos in May 2020 flagged for child rape or other problems, often not removed until flagged 16+ times

What goes through the minds of people working at porn companies profiting from videos of children being raped? Bluesky: @gateklons and @elisethomas . Forums: r/technology Bluesky: @gateklons : Sickeni...

2022-10-10
TorrentFreak

An analysis of Pornhub's transparency reports shows the site removed 8,547 pieces of content in 2021, down 98% YoY, after adding an uploader verification tool

2022-02-25
The Verge 3 related

A former Pornhub social media manager and content moderator recounts his time at the MindGeek-owned website, and how management prioritized growth over safety

2020-12-18
Financial Times

An investigation into who owns MindGeek, the secretive company behind Pornhub, which had $460M in revenue in 2018 and has 115M+ daily visitors to its sites

Mario Salieri was shooting a pornographic movie in a lavish Prague villa two decades ago when he first caught sight of the computer geeks who were about to upend his industry. Tweets: @lailamickelwait...

2020-12-05
New York Times 2 related

How Montreal-based Pornhub profits from child and revenge porn, rape, spy cam and other criminal, non-consensual sex videos

study Billy Steele / Engadget : Recommended Reading: Ted Lasso and the American decline Tweets: Gabriel Dance / @gabrieldance : facebook - the most prolific reporter of child sexual abuse imagery - wi...

2020-12-04
New York Times

How Montreal-based Pornhub profits from child and revenge porn, rape, spy cam and other criminal, non-consensual sex videos

Why does Canada allow this company to profit off videos of exploitation and assault?  —  Pornhub prides itself on being the cheery, winking face of naughty … Tweets: @nickkristof and @nachristakis Twe...

2020-02-07
VICE

Pornhub claims it has systems in place to flag harmful videos like Girls Do Porn but an investigation finds even light editing allows such videos to be uploaded

VICE : Tweets: @lisavaas , @thottonmather , and @carolineha_ Tweets: Lisa Vaas / @lisavaas : We Tried to Get Nonconsensual Porn Off Pornhub https://www.vice.com/... more great work from @vice Thotton...

2018-02-07
Motherboard 11 related

Pornhub says it's banning AI-generated fake porn videos because they're “nonconsensual”, yet such “deepfake” videos are still available via site search results

In its search of a platform that will host fake porn videos of celebrities created with a machine learning algorithm …

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Quarterly Coverage

Top Sources

Narrative

TEXXR tracks 67 Techmeme articles mentioning Pornhub, dating back to August 2015. The biggest stories include Reddit, Pornhub, Tumblr, Etsy, and others support Red Alert for Net Neutrality project as... and Mastercard won't allow its cards to be used on Pornhub after its review of the site.... Frequently covered alongside Aylo, MindGeek, Stripchat, Visa, and XVideos. Coverage has shifted toward consumer themes and away from regulation, safety.

Key Moments

2024Q2safety +33pts; developer -25pts; consumer -17pts
2024Q3safety -33pts; consumer +67pts; regulation -67pts
2025Q1regulation +100pts

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