Claims extracted
15
sentences that state something as happening or true
Uncertain
13%
2 of 15 hedged
("reportedly", "may", "according to")
Leaning
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no quote in the article backed the model's score
Publisher signals
94/100
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Markup → use → good
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that → sign → inbox
A California bill to protect people on online dating apps from violence has critics arguing that the measure would put a “scarlet letter” on certain users.
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measure → protect → users
But that’s a feature, not a bug in the proposal.
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that → ’ → proposal
The state Senate’s public safety committee this week passed a bill that would require online dating services to run criminal background checks on California users.
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that → pass → users
If the user is a registered sex offender or has been convicted of a violent felony, domestic violence, an assault or a hate crime, the dating service must “place a flag” on the user’s profile to let others know.
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others → register → profile
Dating App Cover-Up: How Tinder, Hinge, and Their Corporate Owner Keep Rape Under Wraps
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Tinder → keep → Wraps
The company behind more than a dozen dating apps, Match Group, has known for years about the abusive users on its platforms, but chooses to leave millions of people in the dark
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company → know → dark
Bill author, state Sen. Caroline Menjivar, said that “dating apps have not provided an adequate level of safety for their users.”
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apps → say → users
At the hearing she cited a 2019 Columbia Journalism Investigations survey that found that more than a third of women polled said they were sexually assaulted or raped by someone they met on a dating app.
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they → cite → app
The Markup last year published an investigation that showed people accused of sexual violence managed to stay on the apps even after victims reported them.
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victims → publish → them
Menjivar, a Van Nuys Democrat, added: “If women, mostly women, continue to be raped or murdered — like another woman (who) was murdered and her body was set on fire last year after a man met her on a dating app — those are the incidents we’re looking to prevent.”
But besides labeling users with a “scarlet letter,” implementing the policy would require dating platforms to collect a significant amount of personal data to avoid misidentifying users, argued Jose Torres, a deputy executive director for the industry group TechNet.
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Torres → add → group
In a rare break with his Democratic colleagues, Sen. Scott Wiener of San Francisco voted against the bill, saying it might have “significant unintended consequences in terms of people’s privacy.”
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it → vote → privacy
But Wiener’s opposition, along with Republican Sen. Kelly Seyarto of Murrieta, was not enough to stop the bill from advancing out of the six-member committee, according to the Digital Democracy database from CalMatters, of which The Markup is a part.
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Markup → stop → which
With four Democratic lawmakers giving the green light, Menjivar said she plans to amend the measure in response to criticism related to the categories of crime and operational challenges — and that legislators are “going to see a dramatically different bill” when it’s presented to the privacy committee on April 20.
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it → give → April
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