On Tuesday, I published a column about a toxic app called The Tea that allows women to anonymously defame their dates without recourse. One must apply and prove their identity to get onto the ...

A week after Tea, a women’s dating safety app, soared to No. 1 on the app store with more than 2.5 million requests to join, the app experienced a data breach. The result? More than 70,000 of ...

The Tea app describes itself as "the safest place to spill tea" about potential online matches, allowing its subscribers to conduct background and criminal record checks, reverse image searches, and ...

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