The background-checking tool used by Match Group to offer a safety feature for Tinder users is shutting down.
Tinder leaders reportedly pushed for a system that would encourage users to run background checks on themselves to receive a badge on their profile, described as “a way to engage those who are less likely to run [background checks] themselves and highlight the majority of people that are good,” an internal document viewed by theread. Garbo rejected the idea, and Kosmides told the paper, “You can’t white-list someone or give them a ‘good guy, bad guy’ identity verification.
The intensified public and political interest heightened pressure on Match Group to do something, and its leadership reportedly saw Garbo — a new and untested product still under development at the time — as a novel solution. The dating conglomeratewith the group in 2021 and launched a consumer tool the following year — with the company paying to offer two free background searches for Tinder users.
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