Their departure had been planned since early 2022, according to Reuters, which also reports that Antoon and Tassillo will remain shareholders.

in the US and Canada. The initiators of the lawsuits had pressed charges against the company for featuring videos of rape of minors on the platform. At the end of 2020, after such content was found on the company’s websites, Mastercard, Visa and Discover blocked their customers from paying on the sites with their services.

The departures come a few days after a New York Times article described the difficulties encountered by those who wanted to remove pornographic content featuring underage and nonconsentual participants from the websites, though according to Mindgeek, the resignations have no relation to these events.

Though Mindgeek says that there is both automated and human moderation of content uploaded to its websites, it insists that non-consensual videos and content featuring under18s had been on its platforms for years. As the company has its headquarters in Luxembourg, the affair surrounding due diligence of companies and the lack of national laws in the grand duchy.

The Washington Post reports that Mindgeek’s executive leadership team will run day-to-day operations until replacements for Antoon and Tassillo are found.