The Federal Trade Commission and Utah ordered Pornhub to pay $5 million penalty to the state for allegedly "deceiving" users about its efforts to restrict child sex abuse material (CSAM) and non-consensual material (NCM) from its site, the FTC announced today.

In a press release, the FTC and Utah claimed that Pornhub and its parent company, Aylo (formerly MindGeek), didn't do enough to remove the illegal content from its website.

In December 2020, Pornhub banned downloads and unverified uploads in the aftermath of a New York Times op-ed about CSAM and NCM posted to the popular porn tube site. The complaint alleges, among other complaints, that Aylo didn't conduct audits of CSAM and NCM until that same year, when credit card processors threatened to cut off their services ( s

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