The Global Story

Journalist Patricia Nilsson discusses who makes money from online pornography and how the industry is financed. Her investigation suggests that the people behind the business have influenced not only the porn available online, but the wider internet.

The programme draws on six years of Nilsson’s reporting on the industry’s financial backers. It says tens of thousands of hours of pornographic content are uploaded daily and that, at peak times, pornography accounts for 10% of internet traffic.