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Why athletes at Olympic Village are finding some Grindr features disabled
"If athletes are not out or come from a country where being LGBTQ+ is dangerous or illegal, using G…
Jaures Yip
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Grindr shared the HIV status of users with ad firms, lawyers say
A UK law firm has filed a class action claim against LGBTQ+ hookup app Grindr, alleging the app sha…
Joshua Zitser
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Grindr's ex-privacy chief accused top executives of shrugging off system bugs that retained 'billions' of user photos
The former head of privacy at Grindr alleged that the company fired him after he raised concerns ab…
Azmi Haroun
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Grindr has a reputation for its hookup culture, but the company says a quarter of its users are there to network. The CEO says he even hired people through the app.
Grindr CEO George Arison told WSJ that he personally hired people through the app.
Lloyd Lee,Sebastian Cahill
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Young people in Pakistan are using Facebook singles groups to find matches after the government banned Tinder
Facebook groups allow young people in the country to share dating profiles without scrutiny from fa…
Rosie Bradbury
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Grindr loses about half its workers after trying to make them come back to the office
About 80 of the dating app's 178 employees declined to relocate and have lost their jobs, the Commu…
Jyoti Mann
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A gay college student says he still uses Grindr after surviving horrific torture at the hands of a man he met on the app — but he takes steps to protect himself
Holden White says he still uses Grindr a year after a man he met on the app attacked him. Experts s…
Joshua Zitser
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Dating app Grindr is ramping up privacy to protect LGTBQ athletes competing in the Beijing Olympics from discrimination and harassment
Grindr nixed the explore feature for people in the Beijing Olympic Village, hoping to protect LGBTQ…
Gabrielle Bienasz
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Grindr dating app has disappeared from Apple's App Store in China, a report says
Grindr's reported removal comes after the Chinese government said it was cracking down on some onli…
Kate Duffy
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Mariah Carey's performance at LA Pride included screenshots from Grindr and social media is loving it
Mariah Carey performed at the second night of "LA Pride in the Park" with Megan Thee Stallion headl…
Clay Walker
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Grindr employees working from home were given 2 weeks to decide to move across the country to work in person or lose their jobs
Grindr said it had been planning the move for months, but employees say it could be retaliation.
Hannah Getahun
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Taking drugs during sex helped me feel alive then ruined my life. Now I use Grindr to help other queer men get clean.
I used drugs while having sex to feel more alive. Chemsex culture can be dangerous; rape and overdo…
Ricki Lee
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'Nasty' scammer had sex with men he met on the dating app Grindr then blackmailed and robbed them
Anouar Sabbar, 28, had consensual sex with nine victims and then demanded payment, saying he was an…
Joshua Zitser
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Dating app Grindr is set to go public via a SPAC merger valued at $2.1 billion
The merger is set to raise $384 million for Grindr, which the company plans to use to pay down debt…
Huileng Tan
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Grindr will cover the cost of employees' gender affirmation surgery, a report says
Grindr's benefits also include other procedures such as changing names on legal documents, hormone …
Urooba Jamal
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Anti-LGBTQ regimes are surveilling dating apps to prosecute people across the globe. Here's how each dating app's security stacks up.
Governments across the globe that forbid homosexuality have surveilled apps like Grindr to prosecut…
Aaron Holmes
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George Santos had a reputation for lying as long ago as 2013, according to a man who met him for a Grindr date
Erick Hagapto said he knew George Santos as Anthony Zabrovsky, but on Facebook and Instagram, he wa…
Joshua Zitser
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As dating apps try to pivot to virtual events, some users are trying to get people violate social distancing rules
Dating apps like Tinder, Bumble, and Hinge have reported increased use amid the coronavirus pandemi…
Paige Leskin
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A 22-year-old Texas man involved in a plot to use Grindr to kidnap and rob gay men has been sentenced to 23 years in prison
Daniel Jenkins and three other men lured at least nine Grindr users to their apartment and held the…
Yelena Dzhanova
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A Louisiana man used Grindr as a 'hunting ground' to kidnap and attempt to kill gay men, according to a federal criminal complaint
A Louisiana man was indicted after prosecutors said he attempted to kill a gay man who he met on Gr…