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podcasts. The tech industries get out of jail free card, gets challenged by users of dating apps.

From American Public Media, this is Marketplace Tech. I'm Lily Jamali.

Whether for a hook-up or to find true love, three out of every 10 American adults say they've

used a dating app. But an investigation out today from Mother Jones looks into how these apps

can also incubate abuse, finding that companies like Grindr and Match Group have failed to protect

some of their users from predators. At the heart of this story is this question, is that their

responsibility? The tech industry has long argued that the answer is no thanks to 26 words in section

230 of the Communications Decency Act, which became law in Get This 1996. Abby Vassulis is the author

of that investigation. Her story begins with Matthew Herrick, whose ex-boyfriend created fake

profiles of him on Grindr. And a warning that our conversation contains references to sexual abuse

and violence. They said that he was into orgies and violent sex. And worst of all, they said that

he had rape fantasies. And so over the course of these 10 months, over 1100 men showed up at

Matthew's house. They showed up at his workplace. They followed him into public restrooms. And all

the while Grindr was ignoring Matthew's pleas for help. So Matthew took them to court. And

and ultimately Grindr was found not to be responsible for the fake profiles that the ex was making.

And this is not that big of a surprise that that case didn't go anywhere because of the way

section 230 works. Can you talk us through that? Yeah. So section 230 was written in 1996 in the

very nascent days of the internet when it was really just rudimentary chat forums. Now the internet

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