Is Tinder Racist?

Racial bias in dating app algorithms

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One of my Black friends who moved to Colorado recently lamented to me that none of the women the dating apps were matching him with were attractive.

“I thought Denver was supposed to be full of beautiful people,” he told me.

It wasn’t just that. He wondered how nearly half of his matches were Latino or Black in a city…