A Pornhub moderator has shed light on how many videos they were tasked with going through per shift, and why inappropriate or abusive content could have been missed.
Money Shot: The Pornhub Story explores the controversial porn website and how the infamous adult entertainment platform ‘fundamentally changed how pornography is made and distributed’.
As Netflix explains in their synopsis of the film, after launching in 2007, Pornhub ‘enabled erotic content creators to reach a massive audience while the company made billions of dollars.’
However, at the same time it also became embroiled in allegations including non-consensual material and trafficking on the site.
The film will also explore how anti-trafficking organisations have sought justice for victims, as well as if the online giant can, or wants to, protect the people from who they profit.
An anonymous former Pornhub moderator shares in the documentary: ‘I think the company could have done more to prevent certain things and chose not to, and only really changed some things after it got in trouble.’
The former employee, who worked for the company for two years, said some of the moderating occurred in Canada, while most of it happened in Cyprus.
At the time they worked there, there were 30 moderators.
‘Every moderator had to review 700 videos per day but it was expected for us to do more.’
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