How Pornhub Became The World's LARGEST Criminal Trafficking Network (with Laila Mickelwait)

Change Agents with Andy Stumpf

IRONCLAD

Society & Culture

4.8 • 607 Ratings

🗓️ 5 February 2025

⏱️ 66 minutes

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On this episode, Andy sits down with activist and founder of the #TraffickingHub movement, Laila Mickelwait, to expose the dark truth behind Pornhub. They discuss how the world’s largest porn site became a hub for child exploitation, rape videos, and sex trafficking, and the shocking ways it profited from criminal content. To learn more of Laila's work, check out her book: Takedown: Inside the Fight to Shut Down Pornhub for Child Abuse, Rape, and Sex Trafficking Change Agents is an IRONCLAD Original Sponsors : Firecracker Farm Use code IRONCLAD to get 15% off your first order at https://firecracker.farm/ MTNTOUGH Go to ⁠https://mtntough.com⁠ and enter code CHANGEAGENTS to receive 40% OFF - a savings of about $100 off your MTNTOUGH+ annual subscription. BetterHelp Visit betterhelp.com/Change to get 10% off your first month. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:03.6	Serena, who was one of the victims, she was underage.
1:09.1	She was a young teen when her abuse was uploaded to Pornhub, downloaded,
1:29.1	uploaded millions of views, you know, sending her on a spiral of trauma. She, you know, she would beg Pornhub to get the videos down. She'd be hassled to prove that she was a victim, prove that she was underage, which is crazy because, you know, they're not asking for that kind of proof to upload a video, but, you know, she ended up dropping out of school, getting bullied. She got addicted to drugs to numb the pain. She tried to kill herself multiple times and
1:33.3	then wound up homeless living out of car. But Serena is suing the literal hell out of Pornhub,
1:39.8	its owners, its executives, the hedge funds, and she's suing visa.
1:45.0	The following program contains subject matter
1:47.0	that some viewers may find disturbing.
1:49.0	Viewer discretion advised.
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