Introducing Understood: Deepfake Porn Empire

When a streamer who goes by QTCinderella starts trending on Twitter, she isn’t expecting to see her face on a porn site — her face, doing things she never did.Because the videos weren’t of her. They were deepfakes. Instead of staying silent, QTCinderella decides to fight back. An ...  Show more

When “Taylor” found out she’d been deepfaked in 2020, she also learned she wasn’t alone. She teams up with another target, and together they start comparing notes to figure out who did this to them.As they narrow their search, a familiar face emerges. But the user they uncover is ...  Show more

How did a handful of competitive foosball players in Montreal create the world’s largest online porn site? And what do a picturesque Dutch cabin, thousands of pornographic VHS tapes, and the subprime mortgage crisis have to do with it? This is episode 1 of The Pornhub Empire: Und ...  Show more

A sophisticated, predatory, multi-billion dollar industry is emerging from the shadows. It already rivals the size of the illicit drug trade. And it’s about to get bigger and much more powerful. 

The Economist’s Sue-Lin Wong follows a trail that starts ...

The FT just launched a new podcast on porn, power and profit. When FT reporter Patricia Nilsson started digging into the porn industry, she made a shocking discovery: nobody knew who controlled the biggest porn company in the world. Now, she and her editor, Alex Barker, reveal wh ...  Show more

Saudi Arabia figures out how to cram nine million people into a giant wall, the State Department was apparently Jeffrey Epstein’s landlord in Manhattan, and Portland residents break down over the filth and crime. Become a DailyWire+ member today to access Matt Walsh’s documentar ...  Show more