Today’s show may be the biggest exposé around Pornhub yet. Let’s get into this exclusive undercover footage.
In case you live under a rock, click here. But for a quick recap, we previously exposed how PornHub was exploiting a loophole to facilitate human trafficking and other evil acts, according to undercover footage released by Sound Investigations.
Today, Sound Investigations released its fifth major undercover video investigating Pornhub and its parent company, Aylo, formerly known as MindGeek.
The new footage alleges that Aylo’s ad network does not require any identification or verification of the legality of the content advertisers uploaded.
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Sean Morrier is a senior software engineer specifically working on TrafficJunky, Aylo’s ad network. Aylo uses this network to show paid advertisements. Advertisers can upload content to TrafficJunky and pay to have it shown on Aylo’s sites.
On undercover camera, Morrier describes his work as “not ethical.”
“Porn production: not ethical… Advertisements on porn: not ethical… it’s all problematic.”
Morrier admits in the undercover footage to this lack of process and says, “Consent of the people in the video. We don’t, I don’t think we look at that.” He explains that Aylo content moderators, “won’t watch the full video. They’ll do like snippets” after the advertiser uploads a video.
“It’s very blurry when you don’t have confirmed people. You don’t know if it was an actual rape video or a fantasy. And I don’t think they cared… Revenge porn: they didn’t give a f**k.”
“As long as money’s being made, morals get blurred.”
Sound Investigations called TrafficJunky’s customer support several times posing as a prospective advertiser.
"It is not that they can't do anything [to clean this up]. They choose not to because it gets in the way of profits,” Gerald A said. "If there is any fight that we can all unite behind, it's this. And this company just chooses not to do it.”
During each call, the support staff assured the journalist that the ads did not need any verification before uploading.
TrafficJunky customer support employees explained, “[Advertiser account] is not likely to become suspended” for uploading underage explicit content. “We won’t ask you before you uploaded the pictures if you have the consent.” “We, on our end, won’t call the cops on you,” according to Sound Investigations.
"They confirmed when they called that users were not punished for uploading underage content," Crowder said. "They asked them many, many times. They could not have been more clear about that."
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“It is like a ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ policy,” Sound Investigation Journalist Arden Young said.
Sound Investigations will be releasing more undercover videos imminently.
November 29, 2023 at 11:16AM - Danielle Berjikian
"As long as money’s being made, morals get blurred”: PornHub Prioritizing Profits Over Consent (MugClub Exclusive)
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