The investigation finds that the matching group failed to act on the authority of sexual assault reports

A from Coding It claims that the parent company of Tinder, Hinge, OKCupid and other dating applications float on holidays to alleged abusive users on its platforms. The 18 -month investigation found cases in which users who have been reported again and repeated anesthesia or assaulting their dates on applications were found.

One of these cases includes a cardiologist in Colorado called Stephen Matthews. For several years, many women have been informed of Match platforms of their anesthesia or rape. Despite these reports, its profile at some point was at some point giving a prominent condition, dedicated to popular personal files and often required a currency within the application to interact with it. Matthews was not removed from the platform until two months after one of the survivors went to the police. After that, the Match Group collection took place when Hinge received an inspection order, by compliance after seven months. He was finally sentenced to 158 years in prison.

How was there such an allowance to happen? According to the company’s internal documents mentioned in the investigation, since 2016, Match Group has been familiar with users who were reported to be assaulted, anesthetized or raped. In 2019, the Central Match Group database, SENTINEL, began recording every user reported either to attack or rape any of its applications. The company informed that, after three years, the system recorded hundreds of weekly accidents. But the system was ineffective and easy to game.

Users were unable to easily evade the ban by subscribing to various contact information, but “the company’s internal documents have not been used information about IP addresses and photos and clarification of birth was not used to ban a user if it appears on another matching app.” The banned Tinder user can simply jump on the ship to the joint without a problem. There is said that there are many online educational programs for methods of evading the ban on applications owned by the match that require slim or non -technical experience, and Coding He was able to verify the health of three of them.

But it was not just a weak design system that bears responsibility. In 2020, Match Group stated that it would issue a report on transparency to show the damage made regarding its platforms – this report was not issued. In the same year, 11 members of Congress requested information about the Match Group operation after receiving sexual violence reports. Three years later, two representatives followed after his promotion by researchers in this report – no data was submitted.

In 2021, About increasing safety, but those familiar with the company told the researchers that it had not improved. In the same year, the report claims that the presentation that appears to employees on multiple occasions asking questions such as, “Are we only published where we ask the law?” And “Are we backing from the amount required to be disclosed, or are we trying to exceed what is required?”

By 2022, Match Group has made a major partnership with Check Check Garbo; The next year that was resolved to partnership, with Garbo publicly, “It has become clear that most of the online platforms are not legally committed to trust and safety for their users.” In 2024, Match Group reduced the staff of the Central Trust-AND Safeter team, where he used external sources in external positions that the company’s former safety president described as working under hard classes and with little training.

The report claims that at least one employee at the time was concerned about the potential risks of focusing a lot on the standards. They asked their superiors: “To what extent do you pay personally to stop one person who was sexually assaulted through a date, one child is smuggled or one weak person who is leading to commit suicide by the predator?” I feel that if I ask members of our employees this question individually, they will put a high value of their own money – but as a group, no one is ready to hear that yet. “

Kayla Welling, the match director of the match, said in a statement to Coding. “We will always work to invest in our systems and improve them, and search for ways to help our users stay safe, and when they call real life.” The company did not question the results of the investigation.