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Laila Mickelwait

@LailaMickelwait

Dec 16, 2023

Beginning at age 7 Jane was raped and trafficked. The first recording of her being raped was made in a garage in Maryland when she was 10 years old. The abuse was then monetized and distributed on P*rnhub to 130 million daily users.

Jane sued P*rnhub in 2021.

She is aware of at least seven assault videos of her that have been distributed & monetized on P*rnhub. The seven videos were uploaded multiple times. In some instances, Jane’s traffickers forced her to upload and reupload videos of herself as a form of punishment.

She later did unsuccessful takedown demands.

We now have evidence from CEO/owner emails, employee text messages and depositions uncovered in legal discovery and published September 1, that P*rnhub owners & executives hid all child abuse videos they knew about from authorities for over 13 years and did not report any of it. This policy prevented law enforcement from finding and rescuing countless child victims for over a decade.

They had policies in place to easily allow the criminal content to be uploaded and monetized again and again. The CEO admits in emails that as a policy they didn’t verify the age or consent of any of the individuals in millions of homemade, user-generated videos they were profiting from.

The CEO emails with his executives and VPs confirmed they only had one person reviewing flagged videos 5 days a week with a backlog of 706,000 flagged videos.

The company policies as confirmed in emails by the CEO, would not put flagged videos in line for review unless they were flagged over 15 times.

Jane could have flagged her child rape 15 times and it wouldn’t have been put in a review queue.

In text messages employees say that management made it clear they “didn’t want the rules [against criminal content] to be enforced.”

The CEO acknowledged that they were “obviously hiding” these policies.

#Traffickinghub

This is a link to Jane’s lawsuit where she and 33 other victims sued P*rnhub in federal court mindgeeklitigation.com/asset/2021.06.…

Sample evidence uncovered in legal discovery:

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Laila Mickelwait

@LailaMickelwait

Sep 20, 2023

P*rnhub CAUGHT ON CAMERA Pt. 2 by Sound Investigations:

About child sexual abuse:

“We weren’t taking it seriously”

“Nobody gave a sh*t”

“We don’t have consent and we’re running ads”

“don’t have enough moderators,”

execs “made a sh*t ton of profit”

This is part of an undercover investigative series by @SoundInvestig and @arden_young_ #Traffickinghub

@SoundInvestig @arden_young_ From Arden Young/Sound Investigations:

1. Farley and Rice were recorded in June and July 2023.

2. All recordings after ECP buyout.

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Laila Mickelwait

@LailaMickelwait

Sep 17, 2023

A 15 yr old girl was trafficked in Colombia by American, Victor Galarza (sentenced to 17.5 years in prison). Her abuse was filmed by Herbert Fletcher (sentenced to 7.5 years in prison) and then uploaded to P*rnhhub using a title with the words “school girl from Colombia” and “forced.”

Immediately upon learning of the video, the girl contacted OUR, a nonprofit dedicated to combatting child trafficking who demanded the videos be removed, but during the 7 months the video was on P*rnhub it was downloaded and reuploaded multiple times.

P*rnhub monetized her abuse videos, distributed them to 5 million users per hour and earned profit from her trauma.

The victim sued P*rnhub/MindGeek in US federal court in California.

Here is a small sample of evidence we have about P*rnhub’s complicity:

-The CEO/owner admitted in emails that they did not verify the age or consent of any of the millions of individuals in the homemade user generated sex videos on the site. (10.6 million videos and 32 million images)

- They ignored victims who were begging for their abuse videos to be taken down including underage children.

-When they did respond to victims they would hassle them to prove they were underage or victims of rape in the videos.

-Legal filings show they also ignored police demands to remove underage abuse on multiple occasions. If videos were removed they would just get uploaded again and again.

-The company had 1200 employees and was making hundreds of millions per year, yet they employed only 10 moderators per 8 hour shift for all of MindGeek/Aylo’s tube sites including P*rnhub, Redtube,YouPorn, Xtube and more.

-Moderators were reprimanded if they watched less than 700 videos per shift and were expected to watch up to 1200 with the sound off. Some of the more experienced moderators would skip through over 2000 per shift.

-Multiple whistleblower moderators have said their job was not to remove content, it was to allow as much content to go through as possible because more content=more traffic=more money.

-Legal discovery proved Pornhub had only ONE person employed 5 days a week to review flagged videos.

-They had a backlog of 706,000 flagged videos.

-They had a policy not to even review a flagged video until it has over 15 flags.

-A victim could flag their rape 15 times without ever triggering a review of the video.

-The CEO called their flagging policies “good and reasonable” in uncovered emails.

- On September 1, 2023 text messages exposed in legal discovery were published by the court where MindGeek employees said “The problem is that management does not want the rules [against criminal content] enforced.”

-The depositions published Sept. 1 confirm that P*rnhub was hiding child sexual abuse they knew about from authorities and not reporting any child rape to law enforcement for over 13 years until the #Traffickinghub movement went viral. Not reporting CSAM is a criminal offense in Canada where their headquarters is.

- The depositions confirmed P*rnhub wasn’t employing any industry standard technology tools to detect or remove child sexual abuse for over 13 years.

-The CEO admitted in emails it was obvious that they were trying to hide their policies from the credit card companies.

-Tapes were published this week of a P*rnhub senior employee who was at the company since 2007, caught on hidden camera in 2023 admitting the executives were confronted about the fact their policies encourage and allow sexual crime to easily be uploaded and monetized. The CPO told the concerned employee to “f*ck off” and “shut up.”

Hold them accountable.

This is a link to the victim’s lawsuit:
mindgeeklitigation.com/asset/2021.06.…

This is the arrest of American Herbert Fletcher who worked with Galarza to traffic the underage girls in Colombia and upload the abuse to P*rnhub.

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Laila Mickelwait

@LailaMickelwait

Sep 9, 2023

A 15 year old from Broward County Florida was missing for a year, she was found when her distraught mother was tipped off by a Pornhub user that he recognized her child on P*rnhub. The girl was found being raped in 58 videos on on an account called “Daddys_Slut.”

Police matched the abuser’s face in the videos to 7-11 convenience store surveillance footage and identified 30 year old Christopher Johnson. When police rescued the girl from his apartment and arrested Johnson she said the videos were filmed inside the apartment and that he had impregnated her.

The videos on P*rnhub were monetized with ads and sold as pay-to-download content where P*rnhub earned 35% of the sale of the videos.

The girl’s life will never be the same.

Here is a small sample of evidence we have about P*rnhub’s complicity:

-The CEO/owner admitted in emails that they did not verify the age or consent of any of the millions of individuals in the homemade user generated sex videos on the site.

- They ignored victims who were begging for their abuse videos to be taken down including underage children.

-When they did respond to victims they would hassle them to prove they were underage or victims of rape in the videos.

-Legal filings show they also ignored police demands to remove underage abuse on multiple occasions.

-If videos were removed they would just get uploaded again and again.

-They employed only 10 moderators per 8 hour shift for all of MindGeek/Aylo’s tube sites including P*rnhub, Redtube,YouPorn, Xtube and more.

-Moderators were reprimanded if they watched less than 700 videos per shift and were expected to watch up to 1200 with the sound off. Some of the more experienced moderators would skip through over 2000 per shift.

-Multiple whistleblower moderators have come out and said their job was not to remove content, it was to allow as much content to go through as possible.

- Last week text messages that were uncovered in legal discovery were published by the court where MindGeek employees said “The problem is that management does not want the rules enforced.”

-Text messages also show employees saying that management instructed them to stop sending notices of child sexual abuse on P*rnhub to management, presumably so they could claim ignorance.

-The depositions published last week confirm that P*rnhub was hiding child sexual abuse they knew about from authorities and not reporting any child abuse for over 13 years until the #Traffickinghub movement went viral. Not reporting CSAM is a criminal offense in Canada where their headquarters is.

- The depositions confirmed P*rnhub wasn’t employing any industry standard technology tools to detect or remove child sexual abuse for over 13 years.

- Legal discovery proved Pornhub had only one person employed 5 days a week to review flagged videos.

-They had a backlog of 706,000 flagged videos.

-They had a policy not to even review a flagged video until it has over 15 flags.

-A victim could flag their rape 15 times without ever triggering a review of the video.

-The CEO called their flagging policies “good and reasonable” in emails.

-The CEO admitted in emails it was obvious that they were trying to hide their policies from the credit card companies.

All of this was intentional company policy and practice. These were all decisions made by the owners and executives.

(The comments on the image below are real P*rnhub user comments)

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Laila Mickelwait

@LailaMickelwait

Sep 9, 2023

A 12 yr old girl from Ontario Canada had her sexual abuse uploaded to P*rnhub where it was monetized, globally distributed for profit & made downloadable for 130 million visitors per day.

Traumatized and desperate she contacted P*rnhub to demand they takedown her abuse videos. 5 days later she got an auto-reply and nothing else…ever. Her demand went ignored and her abuse remained on the site.

She has now filed a $600 million dollar lawsuit against P*rnhub.

A few days ago on Sept. 1 new evidence was uncovered in legal discovery that proves P*rnhub had only one person reviewing flagged videos only 5 days a week. They had a backlog of over 700,000 flagged videos and a policy to not even put a video in line for review until it had over 15 flags.

The depositions also proved P*rnhub hid child sexual abuse they knew about from authorities for over 13 years. Not reporting known online child sexual abuse is a criminal offense in Canada that carries a 14 year prison sentence.

In the documents published by the court P*rnhub employees are also on the record saying management did not want to be told about the abundance of child rape on the site and that management did not want them to enforce rules that were put on paper against criminal content.

#Traffickinghub

Her story and lawsuit
registredesactionscollectives.quebec/en/Fichier/Doc…

Evidence of P*rnhub’s knowing complicity:

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Laila Mickelwait

@LailaMickelwait

Sep 8, 2023

Serena was only 14 yrs old when nude videos of her were uploaded to P*rnhub, sending her on a spiral of trauma, including suicide attempts, homelessness, & drug addiction.

She recounted during parliamentary testimony how she begged for her abuse videos to be removed from P*rnhub over and over, and was ignored or hassled. Even when they were taken down the videos would be uploaded again.

Serena is now suing P*rnhub in federal court.

On Sept. 1 new evidence was uncovered in legal discovery that proves P*rnhub had only one person reviewing flagged videos only 5 days a week. They had a backlog of over 700,000 flagged videos and a policy to not even put a video in line for review until it had over 15 flags.

The depositions also proved P*rnhub hid child sexual abuse they knew about from authorities for over 13 years and employees are on the record saying management did not want them to enforce rules that they put on paper against criminal content.

Hold them accountable. #Traffickinghub

This is her lawsuit filing:
mindgeeklitigation.com/asset/2021.06.…

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