A Sprawling Bot Network Used Fake Porn to Fool Facebook
In November 2021, Tord Lundström, the technical director at Swedish digital forensics nonprofit Qurium Media, noticed something strange. A massive…
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Judge refuses to remove Visa from Pornhub case on child porn
A federal judge refused to remove Visa from a lawsuit that alleges it aided MindGeek — the parent company of Pornhub — in monetizing child porn. In a…
Europe Has Traded Away Its Online Porn Law
When someone Inês Marinho trusted shared an intimate video of her online without her consent in 2019, she compared it to a chronic disease she would have to…
$85 million payment in ‘Zoombombing’ case that included porn in Bible study class
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Twitch’s new boost feature puts porn on the homepage
Twitch has paused its Boost Train feature, which launched last month and let people pay to promote streams, after porn ended up on users’ homepages with…
Twitch halts paid stream boosts after viewers abuse them to push porn
Twitch is halting a feature that lets viewers pay to promote their favorite streamers after bad actors used it to push porn and other NSFW content onto its…
Silicon Valley’s Sex Censorship Harms Everyone
On Instagram, sex workers have reported their accounts and images being removed, even when they contain no explicit content. They’ve documented instances of…
Tumblr will review its moderation algorithms after a porn ban-related settlement
has reached a settlement with New York City’s Commission on Human Rights (CCHR) over how the social media platform handled its , which came into force in…
Twitter Has Started Blocking Porn in Germany
Twitter has been blocking the profiles of adult content creators in Germany since late 2020, with at least 60 accounts affected to date. The move comes in…
UK to require porn sites to verify users are 18 or older
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Britain's government said Tuesday…