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Dating Apps

Fiction

Fiction Pick of the Week: "Out There"

A woman suspects her new boyfriend is less than human.

Kate Folk The New Yorker Mar 2020 25min

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

Business Crime

The Grindr Grifter

Daniel Spence used dating apps to scam his way across the U.S. Could he be caught before taking over one of Brooklyn’s hottest media companies?

John H. Tucker Observer Jun 2019 25min Permalink

Sex

The Secret Life of America’s Greatest Swinger

The adventures of a pro bono gigolo.

John H. Richardson GQ Jun 2016 20min Permalink

Media

Tinder and the Dawn of the “Dating Apocalypse”

On the front lines of a dating culture dominated by right and left swipes.

Nancy Jo Sales Vanity Fair Aug 2015 25min Permalink

Sex

The Dating Game

An oral history of the Tinderverse.

Kiera Feldman Playboy Sep 2014 30min Permalink