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• @cwarzel Charlie Warzel on x

  is the FTC always this busy or has 2019 been a real wild year? https://twitter.com/...

• @vinnylingham Vinny Lingham on x

  This is not just http://match.com/ - it's the entire industry. I've spoken to people across the industry and the problem is endemic, yet embraced. I've been personally told by former execs of various dating sites that “fake accounts drive revenues and engagement”. https://twitter…

• @kakurady @kakurady on x

  It's why I'm hesitant of online dating. (Another is that Match Group owns hundreds of dating websites, but they aren't federated? They make more money if you have to subscribe to multiple sites to get more choices in partners) https://twitter.com/...

• @nytimes @nytimes on x

  The FTC is suing the company behind the dating site http://match.com/, saying it used “deceptive” practices to dupe hundreds of thousands of consumers into buying subscriptions https://www.nytimes.com/...

• @ashleyrcarman Ashley Carman on x

  dang so now match group is fighting: tinder's cofounders, bumble, and the FTC https://www.theverge.com/...

• @tonyromm Tony Romm on x

  FTC alleges from “June 2016 to May 2018, for example, Defendant's analysis found that consumers purchased 499,691 subscriptions within 24 hours of receiving an advertisement touting a fraudulent communication.” oh. https://twitter.com/...

• @tonyromm Tony Romm on x

  Between 2013/mid 2018, “consumers who were considering purchasing a http://match.com/ subscription were generally not aware that as many as 25-30 percent of https://t.co/nDjUwiq4Av members who registered each day were using https://t.co/nDjUwiq4Av to perpetrate scams” https://twi…