A lawsuit filed by more victims of the sex trafficking operation claims that Pornhubâs moderation staff ignored reports of their abuse videos.
Sixty-one additional women are suing Pornhubâs parent company, claiming that the company failed to take down videos of their abuse as part of the sex trafficking operation Girls Do Porn. Theyâre suing the company and its sites for sex trafficking, racketeering, conspiracy to commit racketeering, and human trafficking.
The complaint, filed on Tuesday, includes what it claims are internal emails obtained by the plaintiffs, represented by Holm Law Group, between Pornhub moderation staff. The emails allegedly show that Pornhub had only one moderator to review 700,000 potentially abusive videos, and that the company intentionally ignored repeated reports from victims in those videos.
The damages and restitution they seek amounts to more than $311,100,000. They demand a jury trial, and seek damages of $5 million per plaintiff, as well as restitution for all the money Aylo, the new name for Pornhubâs parent company, earned âmarketing, selling and exploiting Plaintiffsâ videos in an amount that exceeds one hundred thousand dollars for each plaintiff.â
The plaintiffs are 61 more unnamed âJane Doeâ victims of Girls Do Porn, adding to the 60 that sued Pornhub in 2020 for similar claims.
Girls Do Porn was a federally-convicted sex trafficking ring that coerced young women into filming pornographic videos under the pretense of âmodelingâ gigs. In some cases, the women were violently abused. The operators told them that the videos would never appear online, so that their home communities wouldnât find out, but they uploaded the footage to sites like Pornhub, where the videos went viralâand in many instances, destroyed their lives. Girls Do Porn was an official Pornhub content partner, with its videos frequently appearing on the front page, where they gathered millions of views.
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The emails allegedly show that Pornhub had only one moderator to review 700,000 potentially abusive videos(âŚ)
Well thatâd be an interesting job to put on a resume
