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December 10, 2020
2:43 PM ET
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Mastercard has terminated the use of its cards on Pornhub, Mastercard told the Daily Caller News Foundation Thursday.
“Today, the use of our cards at Pornhub is being terminated,” Mastercard said in a statement to the DCNF. “Our investigation over the past several days has confirmed violations of our standards prohibiting unlawful content on their site.”
“As a result, and in accordance with our policies, we instructed the financial institutions that connect the site to our network to terminate acceptance,” the credit card company continued. “In addition, we continue to investigate potential illegal content on other websites to take the appropriate action.”
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Pre-election, much of the media disregarded the Hunter Biden laptop story first published by the New York Post.
The reasoning, as journalist Glenn Greenwald noted on Thursday, was twofold: Some members of the media claimed the story was Russian disinformation while others doubted the authenticity of the documents.
These pushbacks came despite The Daily Caller News Foundation obtaining a full copy of Hunter’s alleged laptop in October and verifying the NY Post’s “smoking gun” email, which showed Hunter receiving correspondence from a Burisma executive about an introduction to then-Vice President Joe Biden in 2015.
Media outlets, to justify their refusal to report on the Hunter Biden/China documents before the election, disseminated two primary claims:
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A FDA panel of vaccine experts is convening Thursday to reaffirm the safety of Pfizer’s coronavirus vaccine, a step which public health officials say could be the last before it begins to be distributed in the United States.
The meeting of the FDA’s vaccine advisory panel may be the final step before Pfizer’s vaccine begins widespread distribution across the United States. The vaccine’s clinical trials have shown it to be overwhelmingly effective against the coronavirus, and the panel could greenlight the virus as early as Thursday after the FDA released documents reaffirming the vaccine’s safety and effectiveness.
December 10, 2020
4:39 PM ET
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Most major credit card companies have announced they will block payments to Pornhub following allegations that the pornography website profits from sexual exploitation on its platform.
Both Visa and Mastercard told the Daily Caller News Foundation Thursday that they are not allowing their cards to be used on the website.
“This news is crushing for the hundreds of thousands of models who rely on our platform for their livelihoods,” Pornhub told the DCNF.
Most major credit card companies have announced they will block payments to Pornhub following allegations that the pornography website profits from sexual exploitation on its platform.