{"id":2193,"date":"2019-09-25T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-09-25T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mtchdevimport.wpenginepowered.com\/single-news\/487\/"},"modified":"2025-03-19T16:10:30","modified_gmt":"2019-09-25T00:00:00","slug":"487","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mtch.com\/jp\/single-news\/487\/","title":{"rendered":"Match Responds to FTC lawsuit"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"left\">\n<style type=\"text\/css\">\n<p>\/* Style Definitions *\/\nspan.prnews_span\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\na.prnews_a\n{\ncolor:blue;\n}\nli.prnews_li\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\np.prnews_p\n{\nfont-size:0.62em;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\nmargin:0in;\n}<\/p>\n<\/style>\n<p><span class=\"xn-location\">DALLAS<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-chron\">Sept. 25, 2019<\/span> \/PRNewswire\/ &#8212;\u00a0As we&#8217;ve previously disclosed in Match Group (NASDAQ: MTCH)&#8217;s Annual Report, in <span class=\"xn-chron\">March 2017<\/span>, the Federal Trade Commission (&#8220;FTC&#8221;) requested information and documents in connection with a civil investigation regarding certain business practices of Match.com. The FTC raised certain potential claims relating to Match.com&#8217;s marketing, chargeback and online cancellation practices. The FTC&#8217;s investigation pertains to the Match.com brand. In <span class=\"xn-chron\">November 2018<\/span>, the FTC offered to resolve its potential claims via a consent judgment mandating certain changes in the company&#8217;s business practices, as well as a payment in the amount of <span class=\"xn-money\">$60 million<\/span>. Discussions between Match Group and the FTC ensued but no resolution was reached. On <span class=\"xn-chron\">August 7, 2019<\/span>, the FTC voted to assert claims against the Company and referred the matter to the U.S. Department of Justice (&#8220;DOJ&#8221;). <\/p>\n<div class=\"PRN_ImbeddedAssetReference\" id=\"DivAssetPlaceHolder1\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Match Group Logo\" src=\"https:\/\/mma.prnewswire.com\/media\/378794\/Match_Group_Logo.jpg\" title=\"Match Group Logo\"\/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The DOJ opted not to pursue the civil case and referred it back to the FTC who then filed a lawsuit against us today making completely meritless allegations supported by consciously misleading figures.<\/p>\n<p>Fraud isn&#8217;t good for business. That&#8217;s why we fight it. We catch and neutralize 85% of potentially improper accounts in the first four hours, typically before they are even active on the site, and 96% of improper accounts within a day.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>For nearly 25 years Match.com has been focused on helping people find love and fighting the criminals that try to take advantage of users. We&#8217;ve developed industry leading tools and AI that block 96% of bots and fake accounts from our site within a day and are relentless in our pursuit to rid our site of these malicious accounts. The FTC has misrepresented internal emails and relied on cherry-picked data to make outrageous claims and we intend to vigorously defend ourselves against these claims in court. <\/p>\n<p><b>About Match Group, Inc.<br \/><\/b>Match Group, Inc. is a leading provider of dating products available in over 40 languages to our users all over the world through applications and websites we own and operate. We operate a portfolio of brands, including Tinder, Hinge, Match, PlentyOfFish, Meetic, OkCupid, OurTime, and Pairs, as well as a number of other brands, each designed to increase our users&#8217; likelihood of finding a meaningful connection. Through our portfolio of trusted brands, we provide tailored products to meet the varying preferences of our users.<\/p>\n<div class=\"PRN_ImbeddedAssetReference\" id=\"DivAssetPlaceHolder2\">\n<\/div>\n<p>SOURCE  Match Group<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/rt.prnewswire.com\/rt.gif?NewsItemId=NY84378&amp;Transmission_Id=201909251345PR_NEWS_USPR_____NY84378&amp;DateId=20190925\" style=\"border:0px; width:1px; height:1px;\"><br \/>\n<\/img><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DALLAS, Sept. 25, 2019 \/PRNewswire\/ &#8212;\u00a0As we&#8217;ve previously disclosed in Match Group (NASDAQ: MTCH)&#038; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":1661,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-single-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mtch.com\/jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mtch.com\/jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mtch.com\/jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mtch.com\/jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mtch.com\/jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mtch.com\/jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2193\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mtch.com\/jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mtch.com\/jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mtch.com\/jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mtch.com\/jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}