Visa has suspended payments to Pornhub.
Mostly true True in substance, wrong in a detail.
Factual: Statements about the present or the past, checked against the record: did they hold up?
What would count as true or false
Judge as of 2020-12-10. True: by that date Visa had announced or confirmed that it was suspending, or had suspended, the use of its cards or network for payments to Pornhub (for example a Visa statement around 10 December 2020). Mostly true: Visa announced the suspension on or about that day but described it with a small difference, such as a suspension 'pending investigation', or as applying to merchant acquiring for MindGeek's sites, Pornhub included. Mostly false: Visa had only announced an investigation or review and had not suspended payments as of that date, or only Mastercard had suspended. False: Visa had taken no such action and said it would keep processing.
Set before the research began.
Evidence (4)
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E1 Visa, Mastercard freezing card use on Pornhub site amid allegations of illegal content | Globalnews.ca Global News (globalnews.ca) · 10 December 2020
“Visa and Mastercard say they are no longer allowing their cards to be used on Pornhub, a website owned by the Montreal-based company MindGeek, amid concerns about allegedly illegal material on the site.”
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E2 Visa, Mastercard freezing card use on Pornhub site amid allegations of illegal content | Globalnews.ca Global News (globalnews.ca) · 10 December 2020
“Given the allegations of illegal activity, Visa is suspending Pornhub’s acceptance privileges pending the completion of our ongoing investigation,” the statement said.”
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E3 Pornhub: Mastercard severs links with pornography site BBC News · 10 December 2020
“Fellow payments giant Visa has suspended use of its cards on the site pending the outcome of its own review.”
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E4 Visa and Mastercard Will Stop Processing Payments to Pornhub VICE · 10 December 2020
“The decision comes after Visa and Mastercard said on Monday that they would investigate allegations of child sexual abuse imagery on Pornhub, and their relationship to MindGeek, Pornhub’s parent company.”
Reasoning
Independent reports from 10 December 2020 say Visa stopped allowing its cards to be used on Pornhub (E1, E3). Global News quotes a Visa statement saying it was "suspending Pornhub's acceptance privileges pending the completion of our ongoing investigation" (E2), and the BBC likewise describes the suspension as pending Visa's review (E3). The criteria name a suspension 'pending investigation' as the example of a small difference that makes the claim mostly true rather than true.
Cite this claim
Bill Ackman, “Visa has suspended payments to Pornhub.” (said 10 December 2020). Verdict: mostly true. Reliability API, claim c_984ac54c8fbe, method 0.1.0+c876030c, dataset release v1.1.2. https://epistacklabs.com/claims/c_984ac54c8fbe
This claim is in dataset release v1.1.2, with the same verdict.
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