SAN FRANCISCO — OkCupid, a top U.S. matchmaking website, regularly mismatches users to test its technology, the IAC/InterActive Corp service revealed on Monday, weeks after Facebook Inc admitted to ...

Remember the controversy over Facebook’s social experimentation, which showed how people’s emotions could be toyed with by changing what they see online? Well, Facebook wasn’t the only site playing ...

A new report from German company Mobilsicher, an outlet dedicated to info on mobile security, has detailed some information about how certain apps share user information with Facebook, BuzzFeed News ...

Rejected: a cross-burning permit for the KKK in Georgia. Relegated: The Daily Stormer, a neo-Nazi website. Removed: confederate landmarks from coast to coast, including four in Baltimore and one in ...

Product and marketing go hand in hand at OkCupid. There’s a dotted line between user engagement, platform tweaks and the deployment of marketing dollars to reach specific types of users, mainly on ...

White supremacist Chris Cantwell has been kicked off the dating website OkCupid following his participation in the recent Charlottesville, Va. protests that sent shockwaves across the US. In a series ...

OKCupid wants people to get real about finding love. The dating website announced it will no longer allow playful and wacky usernames like “AFunnySassyGirl,” “Superlonelyman” or “DoritoprincessXo” to ...

There are millions of fish in the sea and, it seems, nearly as many online dating sites. But few have captured users’ hearts quite the way OkCupid has. Launched in 2004 by a quartet of Harvard ...

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OKCupid’s users are angry – very, very angry. Just ahead of the new year, the company made a radical change to its policies, and now requires people to use real names instead of an OKCupid username, ...

Adi Robertson is a senior tech and policy editor focused on VR, online platforms, and free expression. Adi has covered video games, biohacking, and more for The Verge since 2011. Dating site OKCupid ...