Sens. Maggie Hassan (D-N.H.) and Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) on Wednesday pressed Match Group, the parent company of the popular dating app Tinder, on dating scams.<\/p>\n
\u201cGiven Match Group\u2019s stated commitment to improving upon its historical practices relating to user safety, we write today to request documents and information about the company\u2019s policies, procedures, and practices related to fraudulent activity on its platforms,\u201d\u00a0 the senators wrote<\/a> in their letter to Match Group CEO Spencer Rascoff.<\/p>\n \u201cRomance scams, in which fraudsters form relationships to induce money or gifts from victims, have become a leading form of financial fraud in the United States, with annual losses reaching at least $1.3 billion, according to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC),\u201d they added.<\/p>\n Match Group in 2021 unveiled it would integrate a background check feature into its services later<\/a> that year. In the same year, Tinder, Match and other online dating services urged their users to ask their senators to back the<\/a> Violence Against Women Act.<\/p>\n \u201cOver the years, many events have raised questions about whether Match Group\u2014in its business practices and algorithmic design\u2014has contributed to the proliferation of romance scams online,\u201d Hassan and Blackburn wrote in their letter, adding that the FTC alleged the company exposed dating app users to fraud in 2019. <\/p>\n In a statement to The Hill, Match Group’s trust and safety head Yoel Roth reiterated the company’s commitment to user safety, citing investments in fraud detection as well as partnerships with law enforcement. <\/p>\n \u201cProtecting users from scams is essential to our business and to earning the trust people place in our platforms,” he said. <\/p>\n In the Wednesday letter, the two senators requested \u201call documents and communications concerning the design, development, effectiveness, or consideration of fraud prevention measures\u201d and \u201citemized quarterly investments in trust and safety.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Sens. Maggie Hassan (D-N.H.) and Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) on Wednesday pressed Match Group, the parent company of the ...<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":799,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltaalenthq.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltaalenthq.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltaalenthq.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltaalenthq.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltaalenthq.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=797"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/globaltaalenthq.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":798,"href":"https:\/\/globaltaalenthq.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797\/revisions\/798"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltaalenthq.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltaalenthq.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltaalenthq.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltaalenthq.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}