Match Group screens for predators on Match, but not on Tinder, OkCupid or PlentyofFish
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Mon. Dec 2, 2019

Tinder Lets Known Sex Offenders Use the App. It’s Not the Only One.

Match Group, which owns most major online dating services, screens for sexual predators on Match — but not on Tinder, OkCupid or PlentyofFish. A spokesperson said, “There are definitely registered sex offenders on our free products.”

by Hillary Flynn, Keith Cousins and Elizabeth Naismith Picciani, Columbia Journalism Investigations
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