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Crime Tech

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 Plenty of Fish. A spokesperson said, “There are definitely registered sex offenders on our free products.”

Hillary Flynn, Keith Cousins, Elizabeth Naismith Picciani Buzzfeed, ProPublica Dec 2019 30min Permalink