All articles tagged with "Trust & Safety"
France has passed legislation requiring all social media users, not just minors, to verify their identity through regula…
Facebook's new free verification system uses selfie checks to place white checkmarks on Dating, Marketplace and Groups p…
Aisle has reached 30 million registered users but only 500,000 monthly active users—a 1.67% conversion rate far below in…
High Intent Media launches as a holding company offering white-label dating platform infrastructure, payment rails, mode…
26% of American adults now use AI to write dating app messages, with Google search interest in 'chatfishing' up 5,000% D…
QuackQuack surveyed 10,384 Indian daters aged 22-35 between April and June, finding 55% now scrutinise how matches discu…
Romance scam losses reached $1.14 billion in 2023, marking a 15% year-on-year increase according to Federal Trade Commis…
Threat actor claims to be selling personal data from 51 million Badoo accounts on dark web marketplaces, including email…
Hinge's Friend's Take feature launched globally on 15 July, allowing users to send profile links to up to 50 contacts fo…
One in five U.S. workers now uses LinkedIn to vet romantic prospects, with one in eight forming relationships that origi…
Meta now requires AI disclosure labels on all AI-generated or AI-edited ad creative in the "About this ad" section on Fa…
Korea's three largest independent dating apps—Enrise, Cupist, and Triplecomma—all operate profitably with margins betwee…
UK victims of romance scams lose between £10,000 and £15,000 on average per case, according to Action Fraud BioCatch rep…
UK dating platforms must submit risk assessment records to Ofcom by 31 July 2025 or face enforcement action under the On…
Romance scams cost UK victims £92M in 2022 alone, with losses accelerating as AI makes fake profiles more sophisticated …
Men filed 85% of dating app complaints in Portugal during the first half of 2026, a sharp departure from the roughly eve…
Match Group spent $121M on trust and safety in the first nine months of 2024, whilst Bumble employs over 400 people on i…
Tinder and Diesel have partnered on a 17-piece Pride 2026 capsule collection, donating $100,000 each to LGBTQIA+ employm…
HubPeople's Hubbi 3.0 integrates persistent AI agent support with ChatGPT and Claude CoWork for continuous, context-awar…
DatePhotos.AI has launched a Realness Score rating AI-generated dating photos from 1 to 100 based on visual authenticity…
47% of British users believe dating apps don't work for them, whilst 54% admit to AI-enhancing their profiles Geek Meet …
70% of Coffee Meets Bagel active users completed AI-powered video selfie verification within the first month of rollout …
37% of Indian singles now prefer virtual dates over in-person meetings during summer heatwaves Peak dating app usage has…
Match Group's SVP of Trust and Safety Yoel Roth has joined Reality Defender's Ethics Committee, which establishes guardr…
Reev is a voice-first dating app launching in Australia with mandatory audio prompts before photo access, requiring user…
Match Group has partnered with World, Sam Altman's biometric scanning company, to introduce iris-scanning verification f…
Ashley Madison releases 'Discreet Dictionary' with ten privacy-focused dating terms eleven years after 37 million user r…
QuackQuack surveyed 11,957 Indian users aged 20 to 27 across metro and Tier 2 cities 47% of respondents described modern…
71% of singles say dating has become more expensive over the past year, with two in five going on fewer dates as a resul…
Match Group has built a $9 billion business on dating apps that psychiatrist Amir Levine argues exploit neurological thr…
California's SB 598 would require dating platforms to conduct criminal background checks on all users and flag profiles …
Tinder's upgraded Smart Photos feature uses vision-language models to evaluate photo 'vibe', increasing prediction accur…
Schmooze, a Bengaluru-based dating app, requires users to speak with an AI voice agent before swiping, replacing the tra…
Gleeden has 4 million Indian members despite serving extramarital connections in a culturally conservative market India'…
EU child safety derogation expired 3 April, removing legal basis for platforms to scan for CSAM despite privacy rules Go…
From 4 April, Tinder will require all Dutch users to submit to mandatory facial biometric scanning or face permanent acc…
Match Group's Tinder and Meetic join Bumble and Grindr in signing French government charter targeting homophobic ambush …
Dating platforms have until summer 2026 to comply with new UK cyberflashing regulations or face fines based on global re…
A New Mexico jury awarded $375 million in civil penalties against Meta after a six-day deliberation Undercover accounts …
Two-thirds of singles won't commit to someone without running them past their personal approval committee first One in f…
Romance scams cost UK victims £92.6M in 2023, with over-50s disproportionately targeted 45% of over-50s cannot identify …
Grindr has disabled distance-based tracking and blocked external access within Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics athle…
Tinder announces Events tab launching in beta late May/early June, marking first major pivot to in-person meetups Match …
Over 50 per cent of online daters have encountered 'some form of risk', according to DateMyAge figures Romance fraud cos…
LegacyX, a London tech firm with no dating industry experience, has launched Vortex, an app centred on double dates rath…
60% of trans dating app users receive intrusive questions about their gender identity within the first three messages Tr…
55% of UK singles aged 18-26 have abandoned dating apps in favour of face-to-face meetings due to AI deepfake concerns 3…
Bumble faces Texas class-action lawsuit over ransomware attack allegedly exposing over 30 GB of user records including n…
Steven Bartlett backs pre-revenue dating app hati in Dragons' Den deal, cutting against two years of selective consumer …
Romance fraud extracted $1.16B from US victims in the first nine months of 2025, marking a 22% year-on-year increase in …
Match Group is appointing Manuel Bronstein (former Roblox CPO) and Raina Moskowitz (CEO of The Knot Worldwide) to its bo…
TikTok and Major League Baseball have announced a global content partnership focused on sports highlights and game recap…
X is rebuilding its search infrastructure from scratch after AI bot traffic overwhelmed legacy systems, according to Hea…
Trust in UK dating apps collapsed 20 percentage points in a single year, with 84% of users now saying AI-generated conte…
Bluesky integrated Germ DM, a third-party encrypted messaging app, via profile badges in February 2026 rather than build…
56% of U.S. singles now view AI-generated or heavily edited photos as a red flag in dating profiles 45% of Gen Z cite mi…
39% of Happn users consider being single on Valentine's Day 'not very serious', marking a shift away from romantic urgen…
30% of American singles have tried chore-based dates, whilst 56% remain open to the concept 64% of respondents experienc…
FilipinaMeet launched 1 January 2025 with 20,000 signups in six weeks Philippines has over 110 million people with smart…
MyTruDate requires all users to pass ID verification and criminal background checks covering 200+ offence categories bef…
LinkedIn will actively detect and remove automated comments whilst penalising users participating in engagement pods tha…
Meta's Threads launched Dear Algo in the US, UK, Australia, and New Zealand on 11 February, allowing users to publicly r…
PositiveSingles, an STD-focused dating platform, has launched a lifetime membership tier explicitly targeting celebritie…
Smitten, an Icelandic dating app, launched a provocative campaign in Sweden with slogans like "Just break up" and "You d…
India reduces content takedown deadline from 36 hours to three, effective 20th February Platforms must deploy automated …
Facebook retired video profiles in 2022 after adoption stalled; now relaunching with AI automation to remove creation fr…
The European Commission accused TikTok on 6 February of breaching the Digital Services Act through infinite scroll and a…
Instagram is developing a feature allowing users to remove themselves from someone else's Close Friends list, the first …
UpScrolled grew from 150,000 to 2.5 million users in four weeks following TikTok's January restructuring Skylight, built…
Grindr will disable location-based features inside Olympic Village boundaries during Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Games fr…
ShinyHunters claims to have stolen 10 million records from Match Group platforms including Hinge, OkCupid, and Match.com…
WhatsApp launched Strict Account Settings in late January, blocking photos and media from non-contacts globally The 2015…
TikTok adds creative preview, bulk editing, and Auto-select features to Smart+ automated ad campaigns Dating apps have b…
Nearly 60% of dating app users over 25 now prioritise establishing clear romantic intentions early, according to QuackQu…
Dua.com serves approximately 10 million Albanian diaspora members globally across Kosovo, Albania, Switzerland, Germany,…
Tea exposed government IDs, selfie videos, private messages, and home addresses for over one million users in July data …
Surf Dating has secured official partnership status with HYROX, the mass-participation fitness racing format, to host in…
Meta removed 550,000 Australian accounts in the first week of enforcing the country's under-16 social media ban—330,639 …
Nearly 90% of Black Gen Z users want to declare core values—religion, politics, finances, family planning—before the fir…
Indonesia and Malaysia have blocked access to X's Grok AI chatbot over non-consensual sexualised images, including of mi…
Women use exclamation points at twice the rate of men in dating profiles, and multiple exclamation points at three times…
TikTok removed 143 million videos for counterfeit-related violations between January and June 2024 Over 530,000 videos a…
SugarDaddyMeet has made photo verification mandatory, blocking unverified users from messaging, video, and voice feature…
Grindr testified in support of the Republican-sponsored App Store Accountability Act, which would require Apple and Goog…
GoodDate is a nonprofit dating platform registered as a 501(c)(3) organisation in the US, offering compatibility-based m…
Date Draft plans to launch January 2026 with a 'Trade Room' feature allowing users to dump unwanted matches for others t…
UK romance fraud losses totalled £92.7M in the year to March 2024, with 8,141 reported cases according to Action Fraud R…
Sister Wives claims Texas accounts for more than 10% of its 15,000 US users, with a reported 5,000% surge in poly-relate…
X has rolled out end-to-end encrypted DMs, video calling, and disappearing messages to all users, not just premium subsc…
Match Group agreed to pay $14M to settle FTC allegations it used fake romantic interest notifications from fraudulent ac…
QuackQuack has crossed 40 million registered users, with metro areas now representing the majority of new registrations …
82% of Gen Z and 87% of millennials already use AI to write dating messages and build profiles 62% of Gen Z and 70% of m…
Romance and confidence fraud resulted in $652M in reported losses to the FBI in 2023 Match Group introduced photo verifi…
Life360 claims 95% of American couples now use location-sharing technology, with 21% viewing refusal as a deal-breaker A…
Ysos has accumulated 1.2 million registrations in Brazil and claims 50,000 US users since launching in late 2024 The Bra…
Match Group is making facial verification mandatory for all US Tinder users, transforming an optional safety feature int…
Tinder now requires facial verification for all new California users, creating encrypted "face maps" stored permanently …
98% of UK adults believe financial conversations belong in relationships 80% say admitting debt to a partner is harder t…
Nexuus is launching in mid-November as India's first AI-driven voice-based dating app, using vocal analysis rather than …
54% of American singles now consider romantic or emotional engagement with AI chatbots as infidelity, just 1 percentage …
Grindr is in talks for a $3 billion private buyout following lender Fullerton Financial Holdings seizing shares after de…
Grindr appoints John North as CFO, a finance executive from Enterprise Holdings, AutoNation, and Copart with no consumer…
Match Group's Plenty of Fish surveyed 2,000 US singles in December, identifying three trends: 71% prioritise immediate c…
Hinge now removes individual photos, prompts or videos that violate community guidelines rather than suspending entire a…
Gaydar eliminated six-figure annual technology costs by migrating to HubPeople's white-label infrastructure The platform…
A meta-synthesis of 21 qualitative studies identified eight distinct motivations for using dating apps, with finding a p…
US senators have given Match Group until 15 October to produce detailed documentation on fraud detection and prevention …
Nearly 30% of singles now openly admit to 'throning' — deliberately pursuing romantic partners to elevate their social s…
Australia's mandatory Online Dating Code commenced 1 April, making it the first jurisdiction globally to enforce regulat…
Match Group issued a cease-and-desist to a British man who created a parody Tinder app featuring only his wife's profile…
Over a third of adults admit to lying on first dates, according to survey data from Gamblizard polling 2,000 adults One …
The UK Online Safety Act allows Ofcom to fine dating platforms up to £18M or 10% of global revenue for serious breaches …
Ofcom faces dating operators on 6 February at Global Dating Insights Conference to explain Online Safety Act compliance …
Global Dating Conference takes place in London 26-27 March, following merger of Global Dating Insights and Social Discov…
Romance fraud cost UK victims £92 million in 2023 according to Action Fraud figures Ofcom trial participants showed meas…
Orra launches in beta this week in Salt Lake City with anonymous profiles until mutual interest is established Salt Lake…
Garbo, the nonprofit background check service integrated across Match Group's dating platforms including Tinder, shut do…
18 of 24 popular dating apps scored D or F grades for data protection in new cybersecurity audit Match Group's average r…
Fourplay Social has driven 500,000 downloads and facilitated over 750,000 connections since launching in 2020 Match Grou…
Global Dating Insights has extended nominations for its Women in Dating Special Report 2025 until 22 August, giving dati…
Match Group will pay $14 million to settle FTC allegations it sent notifications about messages from fake accounts to dr…
Dating platforms have spent two years marketing authenticity and intentionality whilst members reportedly use AI to plan…
82% of American Gen Z and Millennial daters now use AI tools in their dating lives, rising to 87% among Gen Z singles 95…
1.1 million private messages exposed in Tea dating app breach, including discussions of abortion, infidelity, and meetin…
Two in seven QuackQuack users now meet close friends through the dating app, with 21% maintaining entirely platonic rela…
Date Player 2, a gaming-focused dating app, achieved 21% year-on-year revenue growth using founder-led community strateg…
Over 250 fraudulent dating applications have been used to harvest intimate photos and personal information from Android …
Taimi, an LGBTQ dating app with 20 million downloads, has launched free event promotion tools alongside automated conver…
Roblox reported 88.9 million daily active users in Q4 2024, with users aged 13+ now representing the majority of engagem…
Greed Dating's facial verification system reportedly costs £0.80 per thousand users The system uses liveness detection v…
UK engagement with traditional swipe-based dating services has dropped 16% according to app analytics data Nearly four i…
66% of dating app users don't trust platforms to protect them from fraud and dangerous individuals Trust deficit rises t…
26% of LGBTQ+ singles in the US have altered dating patterns due to political factors, rising to 43% among Gen Z (18-25 …
Only 15% of dating app users expressed enthusiasm about AI integration, the lowest of any app category surveyed 63.5% of…
30% of Tinder matches now involve LGBTQ+ users, positioning queer singles as core to platform economics rather than a ni…
JPMorgan sets $5 price target for Bumble, implying 30% downside, with recovery not expected until 2027 Hinge grew revenu…
Flure has reached 1.5 million US installs since launching in 2023 with a no-swipe, no-stated-intentions model The app re…
LoveJack limits users to five-word profiles and five daily interactions, launching first in London next month The app jo…
One-third of Hinge survey respondents would now consider dating outside their usual gender or sexuality boundaries, with…
Formal complaints to Japan's National Consumer Affairs Centre about married users on dating apps surged from approximate…
Match Group's share price down 34% over past year; Bumble down 21% Happn claims 120 million registered users globally bu…
Match Group has acquired HER, the dating platform for queer women and non-binary people, with financial terms undisclose…
40% of married users on extramarital platform Gleeden report engaging in emotionally intimate online relationships witho…
Romance and dating fraud cost UK victims £92 million in 2023, making it one of the costliest fraud categories nationally…
Dating apps in India are projected to reach $450M in revenue by 2027, with married users representing a significant but …
Zepeel uses facial recognition AI to ban filters and edited photos, blocking users who attempt to upload altered images …
QuackQuack surveyed 10,000 users claiming toxic dating trends have declined by 30% in India India's dating app market ad…
52% of Gen Z and millennials have walked away from dates after discovering their match looked substantially different fr…
Grindr has launched "Taken on Grindr", an optional in-app camera that timestamps and watermarks photos to verify recency…
Child sex offenders are significantly more likely to use dating apps than non-offenders, according to research published…
POPCORN, a dating platform rebranding from its pseudonymous sex-dating origins, has launched a bilingual survey on women…
60% of Indian women on dating apps report societal pressure to commit quickly, versus 33% of men 34% of users aged 27-35…
Global Dating Insights London conference scheduled for 17 September at Glaziers Hall with early bird pricing until 30 Ma…
Seven major dating platforms including Match Group, Bumble, and Grindr have signed Australia's voluntary safety code req…
Tinder launches first pan-Asian campaign targeting Gen Z women across South Korea, Thailand, India, and Vietnam 71% of G…
Feeld partnered with Kesha for SXSW panel on authenticity and non-traditional relationships, positioning the singer as b…
75.8% of dating app revenue now comes from one-time purchases rather than subscriptions, according to analytics firm Ada…
ColdStart, an AI marketing tool spun out from dating app Bindr, has secured more than $1 million in contracts since laun…
UK romance fraud losses reached £92.3M in 2023, up 27% from 2021 Bumble's trust and safety headcount increased 23% year-…
Bumble reported a 3.8% revenue decline to $212.4M in Q4, with total company revenue falling to $273.6M New safety featur…
62% of 3,000 people tested failed to identify AI-generated dating profiles, despite 57% expressing confidence they could…
BiCupid becomes first dating app for bisexual users to deploy AI-powered nude detection at scale 87% of female BiCupid m…
Bookmark reports 25% of its paying subscribers in India are women, potentially ahead of mainstream competitors in a mark…
LELO claims 82.5% of dating app users widened age filters in past year, with younger men and older women driving the tre…
Mattr has raised £177,000 through crowdfunding—78% of its £225,000 target—from 247 investors with three days remaining T…
Tinder's Dating Safety Guide has been translated into Bengali, Hindi, Kannada, and Marathi—the first time it's been avai…
Grindr is deploying AI-powered image verification to detect manipulated or fake profile photos The company is simultaneo…
Japan's dating app market grew 34% between 2020 and 2023, with largest gains among users aged 20-29 Roughly 54 worker de…
Gleeden has reached 3 million users in India with 270% annual growth Female sign-ups surged 128% year-on-year, outpacing…
Four founder-led niche dating apps launched in 2024 remain operational after twelve months: voice-first Hum, verificatio…
Tinder's European campaign features Brutalismus 3000, a Berlin techno duo who matched on the app in 2021 and now perform…
Australian dating app users are increasingly deploying AI tools like ChatGPT and RIZZ to write profiles and messages, cr…
Down Dating team launches Dapper, an AI tool generating professional headshots and dating profile photos from user uploa…
Global Dating Insights' annual Christmas networking event at Houses of Parliament takes place 5 December, with final tic…
Romance scams targeting over-50s cost UK victims more than £92M annually, according to Action Fraud figures Manual video…
Dinky One deployed AI moderation after human reviewers couldn't keep pace with explicit photo volumes on the body-centri…
Dutch banking data shows dating fraud victims losing an average of €25,000 per scam—roughly ten times typical online fra…
Cyberflashing became a specific criminal offence in the UK in January 2024, carrying penalties of up to two years impris…
Kiseki survey claims 95% of Japanese singles interested in dating foreigners, based on 230 respondents Japan's marriage …
Tinder will donate AUD$1 to domestic violence charity Wesnet for each profile verification in Australia between 12 Novem…
University of Texas study of 122 students found dating app users reported higher rates of unprotected sex and multiple p…
9% of dating app users in a 2019 Plenty of Fish study acknowledged dating someone primarily for social status—a behaviou…
Video chat adoption remains in "low single digits" among active Tinder users despite prominent in-app placement Match Gr…
77% of singles report heightened nervousness the longer online conversations continue without transitioning to an in-per…
Greed Dating consolidates 16 niche dating categories into a single platform, from BBW Dating to Football Fans The platfo…
Australia's three largest dating platforms—Match Group, Bumble, and Grindr—control 75% of the local market and have sign…
75% of Australian dating app users surveyed experienced some form of sexual violence over a five-year period, according …
Ashley Madison is the most-searched and most-recommended dating platform in Texas, the only US state where the affair-fo…
Black and Asian dating app users receive systematically fewer likes and matches than white users with identical profiles…
Rizz, an AI dating assistant, has reached 7.5 million downloads since launching in 2022 The app analyses dating app scre…
Match Group's average revenue per paying user reached $17.93 in Q3 2024, up 7% year-over-year, with 'à la carte feature …
After, an Austin-based dating app, requires users to provide mandatory explanations when unmatching someone 42% of Austi…
Only 30% of 3,000 surveyed employed Americans say they feel safe using dating apps, according to research commissioned b…
EVA AI has launched four LGBTQ+ characters (two lesbian, one gay male, one non-binary) on its companion platform, timing…
Heyoosh launches with AI-driven personality matching and end-to-end encrypted messaging, positioning itself against main…
Three ultra-niche dating apps launched within weeks of each other: Heyoosh (AI-based, no photos), FET (BDSM/kink), and E…
HealthSteps launched on iOS after accumulating 30,000 Android users with a hybrid dating-networking-wellness platform Ma…
KokTailz has launched human-staffed real-time chat support across the US, Nigeria, Brazil, and India The service covers …
Match Group's Chispa caps Pride donation at $10,000—roughly 0.0007% of the company's $1.4B Q1 2024 revenue 11% of US Lat…
Mexico recorded 3,754 femicides between 2020 and 2022, with tech-facilitated violence increasingly documented as a precu…
