Business Attacks

Over three years after XBIZ reported on how an obscure U.S. foundation was funding sponsored anti-porn content that ran amidst the actual journalistic pieces written by the staff of The Guardian newspaper, the self-proclaimed “world’s leading liberal voice” continues publishing similarly produced slanted pieces calling for state regulation of adult content online.

Google disabled on Tuesday its Programmable Search Engine (ProSE) marketing product from several adult sites, after an attention-grabbing report for an analytics company was sensationalized by two advertising industry trade publications.

It’s pretty much the way of the world: beyond the basic enshittification story that has been so well told over the past year or so about how companies get worse and worse as they get more and more …

Alphabet, the parent company of Google and YouTube, has offered a “Legislative Framework” for protecting kids online.

X.com users have started reporting instances of Elon Musk’s new shadowban transparency policy, where accounts are flagged by the company without user input for “potentially” containing sensitive media.

Sex workers say their NSFW accounts on X (formerly Twitter) have been restricted in reach and hidden from search results.

Stripe is processing payments for sites that produce nonconsensual AI porn while denying service to actual sex workers and people in the adult entertainment industry.

Ask most people what they remember about the 1997 film “Boogie Nights,” and they’ll probably mention Heather Graham dancing around as Rollergirl, or the infamous pool party, or Mark Wahlberg finally — spoiler alert — unveiling his prosthetic penis.

A coalition of LGBTQ+ and sex worker-led organizations has filed a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission.

Instagram this week censored several posts promoting the acclaimed film history podcast “You Must Remember This,” including SFW images from ’90s erotic drama “Indecent Proposal,” starring Demi Moore, Woody Harrelson and Robert Redford.