The problem of rape for the match group: The lawsuit claims that the failure of the work

But the day before the profit invitation, the shareholder of matches called Nid Hybpsus presented suit Against the company’s board of directors, including RASCOFF and former CEO Bernard Kim, who raises questions about the company’s leadership and the priorities of the Board of Directors in the wake of the achievement of a bomb published earlier this year.

Which – which Media report“Covering the dating application: How Tinder, Hinge, and the owner of the company have maintained rape under the winding,” by the PulitZer and Calmatters Center, which was published by the Guardian and 19, grew from 18 months of reports and extensively excerpt in the new case, which was presented in a federal court in central California.

Quoting reports, the lawsuit claims that “the conformity group has been known … Users have been reported for anesthesia, assault, or rape of their dates since at least 2016, according to the company’s internal documents. Since 2019, the Match Group Center has registered every week, every week, it was registered every week, the company that was reported was reported every week. He says. ”

The match did not respond luckRequest to comment on the new lawsuit. Former CEO Bernhard Kim was not created. When the investigation was published, the company told the media that it was “fighting the power of violence,” according to the report. “We will always work to invest in our systems and improve them, and search for ways to help our users stay safe, whether online or when they call real life,” said Match Group in a statement at that time. He also said: “We take every report on misconduct seriously, and we remove the accounts that violated our rules regarding this behavior.”

However, after a report, Match Group has not given a date that would give all stakeholders, including customers, a clear sense of the risks facing users. Some of the accused perpetrators found ways to stay on the site, allowing them to continue hunting websites to obtain possible targets – sometimes for months or years – even after their crimes were reported.

The complaint also claims, referring to the investigation report, “In one of the obscene examples in particular … Cardiologist Stephen Matthews kept reaching the match platforms in late January 25, 2023, although the user was reported to sexual assault on September 28, 2020. In 2024, Matthews Condemn By the Colorado Court of Anesthesia 10 women met through dating applications and Tinder, and sexual assault on eight of them. He was sentenced to 158 years in prison.

A lawyer for the plaintiff refused to comment luck To the complaint.

Match Group, a company worth $ 8.8 billion, has more than ten applications, including Tinder, Hinge, Match, Meetic, OKCUPID and many fish. The lawsuit seeks to obtain compensation from the executives and members of the board of directors called the violations of credit duty, the violations of the Securities Law, and the unfair enrichment. It also calls for reforms to manage corporate, risk supervision, restore executive wages, and other costs incurred by the company.

It is a derivative lawsuit, as the shareholder shall submit claims against leadership on behalf of the company. Any payments requested by the court go to the company, and the shareholders are indirectly benefiting. (Managers usually have insurance policies that will cover such payments. If misconduct is not covered with policies, however, the members of the Board of Directors are obligated to cover the costs themselves.)

The Politzer Center report opens with a horrific and detailed account of a victim of Matthews, who says that when Matthews visited his home, he anesthetized and assaulted it. She was able to escape and enter Uber, and after the effects of the drug faded, she stated that the accident was for a match. At the time of this attack, two other women have already informed Matthews to the site, according to the report.

In many cases, the lawsuit compares what the company revealed in securities files and while the analyst calls with what the Politzer Center report claimed that the company already knows it. For example, the legal deposit states that the company revealed the decrease in the numbers of the monthly active users of Tinder in November 2024 without revealing what the prosecutor claims to be the real reason for losing customer application: long -term safety issues described in The Sounds published after a few months.

Al -Shakawi says, “Economic competition or considerations have not caused the rapid decrease in Mao in Tinder,” Al -Shakawi says. “He stumbled because users are tired of meeting the aggressors and predators on the platform.”

“Users also felt frustrated by the company’s failure to reduce this evil behavior,” which is still, “which was known to lead the company.”

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