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  • Thursday, 16 March, 2023
    Pornhub owner sold to Canadian private equity firm Ethical Capital

    MindGeek acquired for undisclosed sum as it is being sued over sexually explicit videos of minors

  • Thursday, 4 August, 2022
    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

  • Friday, 29 July, 2022
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    Hot Money: porn, power and profit

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  • Friday, 24 June, 2022
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    Inside the secret, often bizarre world that decides what porn you see

    The adult industry’s de facto regulator isn’t government, international convention or business itself. It’s Mastercard and Visa

  • Tuesday, 21 June, 2022
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    Departures of Feras Antoon and David Tassillo come amid criticism and clashes with company’s owner

  • Thursday, 2 September, 2021
    Inside BusinessAlex Barker
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    Porn is a kind of paradigm for broader changes for publishers and musical labels

  • Friday, 27 August, 2021
    The Top LineTom Braithwaite
    The hardcore problem of payments in porn

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  • Thursday, 17 December, 2020
    The Big Read
    MindGeek: the secretive owner of Pornhub and RedTube

    In the internet era, porn is everywhere but the company which owns some of the most popular sites is out of sight

  • Friday, 28 June, 2019
    Technology
    Porn age-verification could be monopoly, warns watchdog

    Fears that access will be controlled by owner of popular adult content sites

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