Hot Money: Who Rules Porn?

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05/25/22 • 3 min

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When Financial Times 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, Nilsson and her editor, Alex Barker, have figured out who the guy was, and much more. Their reporting reveals a shadowy power structure that includes billionaires, tech geniuses and the most powerful finance companies in the world. Coming June 7th.

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Stoya is a porn star who saw first-hand how a firehose of free porn online transformed the adult industry.

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Pushkin. I'm Patricia Neilson and I'm Alex Barker. We're journalists for the Financial Times. We write about business, but over the last year we found an amazing financial story in an unexpected place, the porn industry. No one really likes to talk about porn. We're embarrassed to even though most of us have watched it at some point, and there's a contradiction at the heart of it. Porn relies on performers to literally bear it all, yet informatio