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Business Insider reports on a lawsuit by a mother whose 14-year-old son’s rapist uploaded a video of the abuse to Pornhub, which was subsequently watched over 150,000 times.
In the civil suit against MindGeek, the plaintiffs allege that MindGeek’s Pornhub provided “assistance, platform, content mandates, and edits” to Franklin in order to generate “the maximum amount of views and drove the maximum volume of traffic for the mutual benefit of the Defendants and their unlawful scheme.”
The suit also alleges that MindGeek “never informed the authorities about the identity of Defendant Franklin, the fact he posted child sexual violence or the fact that child sexual violence was being utilized on their platforms for profit to their mutual benefit.”
This is not an isolated incident. In 2020, Nicholas Kristof wrote a report for the New York Times on how MindGeek, which owns Pornhub, was platforming child pornography.