Pornhub owner’s CEO and COO resign

Photo by Gabe Ginsberg/FilmMagic

Variety reported that MindGeek has lost two high-level executives. Shortly after The New Yorker released a report detailing the holes in the company's moderation system, they resigned.

A spokesman for the company told Variety that a leadership change had been planned earlier this year. The representative said that MindGeek is looking for replacements for Tassillo and Antoon. MindGeek didn't reply immediately.

Despite having a policy meant to protect against this, PornHub has been criticized for hosting videos of children, victims of sexual assault, and non-consensual adults. Young women who had videos posted on Pornhub while they were under the age of 18 were the subject of a New Yorker report.

The problem of offending videos reappearing over and over again was highlighted earlier this year in a story by The Verge. A class-action lawsuit accuses PornHub of failing to take down videos of non-consensual subjects.

Related

Behind Pornhub’s decade-old moderation problems

The New York Times reported on this issue in 2020 and PornHub tried to take action. The report showed how difficult it is to get the videos erased. It is not clear how much this will address the issue at hand.