MASHABLE – July 11 – Tinder users are still saying the platform banned them after writing Black Lives Matter and other phrases about racial justice and police abolition in their bios and messages. Safety is paramount to everything Tinder does, said a Tinder spokesperson, and this goes into how users are banned. There are automatic bans for spam behavior (i.e., right swiping on everyone and immediately messaging a Facebook link for matches to 'like'), and user reports that result in bans. When a user is reported, it's flagged in Tinder's systems for human review. What's likely happening here is the latter, users reporting each other, resulting in bans. This report-and-ban problem isn't new. For years, trans users have spoken out about getting banned from Tinder due to transphobic users reporting their accounts. Tinder is aware of this issue and, according to its spokesperson, senior moderators look at those cases. They acknowledged that some cases "slip through the cracks" and encouraged users to email if they believe they have been wrongly banned.
by Anna Iovine
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