why are women still signing up for tea?
kill switch
Kaleidoscope
4.7 • 635 Ratings
🗓️ 6 August 2025
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Tea called itself a women’s safety app. Then, 4chan found it. Selfies, IDs, even private messages were left exposed after two massive data breaches. Tens of thousands of women were affected, but hundreds of thousands still want to sign up. We break down what went wrong, and what it says about the tech we trust to keep us safe.
Dexter talks to journalists and 404 Media co-founders Emanuel Maiberg and Sam Cole about what happened, and what this could mean for women (and men!) whose information was exposed.
Read + Watch:
Emanuel’s coverage on the Tea data breach:
Women Dating Safety App 'Tea' Breached, Users' IDs Posted to 4chan
A Second Tea Breach Reveals Users’ DMs About Abortions and Cheating
Tea User Files Class Action After Women’s Safety App Exposes Data
Sam’s coverage on ‘Are We Dating the Same Guy?’ Facebook groups:
Man Who Sued 'Are We Dating the Same Guy?' Groups Files Class Action Lawsuit
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:04.5 | In sitcoms, when someone has a problem, they just blurt it out and move on. |
| 0:09.0 | Well, I lost my job and my parakeet is missing. How is your day? |
| 0:15.3 | But the real world is different. Managing life's challenges can be overwhelming. |
| 0:19.6 | So, what do we do? We get support. |
| 0:22.0 | The Huntsman Mental Health Institute and the Ad Council have mental health resources available for |
| 0:26.3 | you at loveyourmindtay.org. That's loveyourmindtay.org. See how much further you can go when you |
| 0:32.6 | take care of your mental health. Adventure should never come with a pause button. Remember Movie Pass? |
| 0:38.5 | All the movies you wanted for just nine bucks? |
| 0:41.2 | I'm Bridget Todd, host of There Are No Girls on the Internet. |
| 0:44.0 | And this season, I'm digging into the tech stories we weren't told. |
| 0:47.4 | Starting with Stacey Spikes, the black founder of Movie Pass, who got pushed out of the company he built. |
| 0:52.8 | Everybody's trying to knock you down and it's not going to work and no one's going to like it. |
| 0:57.5 | And then boom, it's everywhere. |
| 0:59.4 | And that was that moment. |
| 1:00.8 | Listen to there are no girls on the internet on the IHurt Radio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcast. |
| 1:04.8 | The Kalysego. My phone was going to see that it was going to like the Google voice number. |
| 1:22.8 | And it was this guy in Canada whose day job is like IT adjacent and he sounded like pretty |
| 1:33.4 | frazzled and in a hurry. |
| 1:36.7 | Emmanuel Myberg is a journalist and a co-founder at 404 Media. |
| 1:40.8 | Two weeks ago, he got a phone call. |
| 1:43.0 | Someone really wanted to tell him about this viral app. |
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