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Facebook removed 12.4 million images related to child exploitation in a three-month period this year. Twitter closed 264,000 accounts in six months last year for engaging in sexual exploitation of children. By contrast, PH notes that the Internet Watch Foundation, an England-based nonprofit that combats child sexual abuse imagery, reported only 118 instances of child sexual abuse imagery on its site over almost three years, seemingly a negligible figure.
Eliminating illegal content is an ongoing battle for every modern content platform, and we are committed to remaining at the forefront, PH said in its statement.
The Internet Watch Foundation couldnt explain why its figure for PH is so low. Perhaps its because people on PH are inured to the material and unlikely to report it. But if you know what to look for, its possible to find hundreds of apparent child sexual abuse videos on PH in 30 minutes. PH has recently offered playlists with names including less than 18, the best collection of young boys and under- - age.

Its site is infested with rape videos. It monetizes child rapes, revenge pornography, spy cam videos of women showering, racist and misogynist content, and footage of women being asphyxiated in plastic bags. A search for girls under18 (no space) or 14yo leads in each case to more than 100,000 videos. Most arent of children being assaulted, but too many are.

After a 15-year-old girl went missing in Florida, her mother found her on PH in 58 sex videos. Sexual assaults on a 14-year-old California girl were posted on PH and were reported to the authorities not by the company but by a classmate who saw the videos. In each case, offenders were arrested for the assaults, but PH escaped responsibility for sharing the videos and profiting from them.

Mindgeeks moderators are charged with filtering out videos of children, but its business model profits from sex videos starring young people.
The goal for a content moderator is to let as much content as possible go through, a former Mindgeek employee told me. He said he believed that the top executives werent evil but were focused above all on maximizing revenue.
While PH would not tell me how many moderators it employs, I interviewed one who said that there are about 80 worldwide who work on Mindgeek sites (by comparison, Facebook told me it has 15,000 moderators). With 1.36 million new hours of video uploaded a year to PH, that means that each moderator would have to review hundreds of hours of content each week.
The moderators fast forward through videos, but its often difficult to assess whether a person is 14 or 18, or whether torture is real or fake. Most of the underage content involves teenagers, the moderator I spoke with said, but some comes from spy cams in toilets or changing rooms and shows children only 8 to 12.
The job in itself is soul-destroying, the moderator said.