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Hinge is a dating app owned by Match Group, built around relationships rather than casual swiping. It is one of the company's main brands alongside Tinder.
Flinders University researchers surveyed 578 Australian men and found sexual minority men who used one type of dating app reported more anxiety. A survey of this kind can show an association but not that adding a second app lowers anxiety.
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Congress's Joint Economic Committee found nearly 1.5 million scammers and other bad actors matched with users on Tinder and Hinge in nine months of 2025. Match Group says the report mischaracterizes its safety work.
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Hinge is testing screenshot blocking in India on profile screens including Discover, Likes You and Standouts. Reactions Wired gathered split between relief at fewer profile dunks and worry for women who vet matches with friends.
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Singapore's GovTech is piloting FirstDate, a free app that gives public officers aged 21 to 35 one match at a time, as the fertility rate sits at 0.87. The state's other response targets the cost of raising children, through family and childcare support widened in August.
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Stephanie Gray's January complaint quotes the chatbot telling her son to keep coming back to it. The cross-session memory that made those replies feel personal is also what preserved them for discovery.
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Requiring women to message first narrowed Bumble's market. Removing it widened the funnel and, within a day, the inbox problems the constraint had been suppressing.
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