After a disastrous stint at Twitter as the chief censor of the platforms infamous “trust and safety” team, Yoel Roth now plans to bring his censorship skills to a new task — cleaning up the seedy underbelly of online dating as Match Group’s head of trust and safety.
Following a poor recent earnings report, Match Group has announced plans to scale back Tinder’s metaverse dating program.
Match Group, the company behind popular dating apps like Tinder and OkCupid, is suing Google, accusing the company of holding it hostage with its monopolistic stranglehold on the Android app store. The company’s lawsuit states: “Ten years ago, Match Group was Google’s partner. We are now its hostage. Blinded by the possibility of getting an ever-greater cut of the billions of dollars users spend each year on Android apps, Google set out to monopolize the market for how users pay for their Android apps.”
Bumble and Match are creating a so-called “relief fund” for women in Texas who want to kill their unborn children after their baby’s heartbeat is detected. The companies’ pledge follows the enactment of a Texas pro-life law that bans most abortions after six weeks of pregnancy.
The two top senators on the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Antitrust have sent a letter to Google asking about a phone call the company made to Match Group, the developer behind the Tinder dating app, a day before its top lawyer was set to testify about the company’s treatment on the Google Play app store. Match claims the call was an attempt to pressure the company into making positive comments about the Masters of the Universe.
The popular hookup app Tinder is launching a new series of safety features including a panic button that will allow users to contact emergency services in case a sexual encounter becomes dangerous.
Popular hook-up app Tinder and dating sites OKCupid and PlentyofFish — all owned by online dating giant Match Group — don’t perform criminal background checks on their users, allowing convicted rapists and other registered sex offenders to roam freely, according to a new report.
A former executive at the dating app company Tinder has sued the firm, alleging that the company’s CEO at the time sexually assaulted her and fired her following her complaint about the incident.
Social media firm Facebook unveiled their latest attempt to copy an existing app’s idea with the introduction of a new dating feature that bears a striking resemblance to popular dating app Tinder.
