Taking down Pornhub: From the inside, the fight to shut it down over child abuse, rape, and sex trafficking

A best-selling book in the United States. This book tells the gripping true story of a woman who struggled to expose and shut down an online pornographic criminal empire. Pornhub was the tenth most visited site on the Internet and was often praised as a strong advocate for women's rights. Then one day, an activist discovered a secret they had kept from the world for more than a decade: the site was filled with videos of child sexual abuse and rape. Now, for the first time, Leila Mickelwait, anti-human trafficking expert and mother of two, tells the story of her battle against the billionaire executives of Pornhub and the credit card companies who helped them exploit countless victims, some as young as three years old. Readers will follow her journey from her first shocking discovery of criminal content on Pornhub to her closed-door meetings with credit card company executives, top officials at the White House and Justice Department, a powerful hedge fund manager, and others. Through inside accounts from Pornhub moderators and administrators, you'll learn about the world's first online porn mogul, nicknamed the "Zuckerberg of Porn," as well as the site's top brass (known internally as the "Frat Club") who operate in complete secrecy. The culmination of years of activism, Takedown tells the never-before-told true story of how Mickelwait mobilized a movement of two million people, and together they achieved “the largest content takedown in the history of the Internet.” (Financial Times)