Tinder, Hinge sued on Valentine's Day for turning ‘users into gamblers'

Litigation was in the air this Valentine’s Day when online dating conglomerate Match.com, the parent organisation of Tinder and Hinge, found itself accused of encouraging addictive behaviour in a class action filed in Northern California. “Over the past decade, MatchGroup’s application-based dating platforms have altered social reality,” Oksayan et al remarked in the filing. “A millennium of traditional courtship has been replaced by technology. Striking up an in-person conversation with a stranger cannot c ...