NARRATIVE – Friday, one day after having become the first free application on Apple Store, Tea underwent a cyber attack. Some 72,000 images and personal data have been put into circulation on the Internet.
The photo represents a young blond, smiling man, the air of the ideal son -in -law. Unfortunately on the tea dating advice app, he has 17 red flags and an unflattering comment: “Has cheated my girlfriend with at least three other girls”. Tea is an app that aims to “Help women meet safe people” By allowing them to share information on the man with whom they come out or plan to go out. All this anonymously. The app presents itself as a kind of The Fork but instead of a restaurant it is an opinion on a potential lover. Each male is listed with his photo, first name, a green (positive) or red (negative) flag and the «tea»gossip and testimonies. Which must, hope the users, avoid them falling on Tinder or other sites on a rapist or chronic adultery.
Tea was founded in 2022 by Sean Cook, a computer engineer. He was inspired, he said, by the “Terrifying experiences on dating sites” of his mother …
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