Visa and Mastercard, the giant payments processing companies, said they would investigate their financial links to MindGeek, the parent company of the adult website Pornhub, after the New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof reported that the website included videos of child abuse and nonconsensual sexual violence.Visa said in a statement that it was “actively engaging with the relevant financial institutions” and with MindGeek to investigate the allegations.Visa, which works with 61 million merchants and moves nearly $12 trillion in money through the financial system in a year, said it was “vigilant” about removing companies doing illegal activity from its network. …
