A US federal appeals court refused to hold Grindr liable to a NY man who said his former boyfriend used the app to post fake profiles, in a harassment campaign that caused more than 1,000 men to approach the victim for sex.
The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said the app was shielded from liability for exercising “a publisher’s traditional editorial functions."Jonathan Brady / PA Images via APGet breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings.A U.S.
It said Grindr was shielded from liability for exercising “a publisher’s traditional editorial functions,” or providing “‘neutral assistance’ in the form of tools and functionality available equally to bad actors and the app’s intended users.” Herrick, who stopped using Grindr in 2015, said the fake profiles caused as many as 16 strangers a day to visit his home and the restaurant where he worked, expecting sex, for several months starting in Oct. 2016.Herrick’s lawyer Tor Ekeland said in an interview he was “disappointed but not surprised” by Wednesday’s decision because courts are “extremely deferential to big tech” when interpreting the CDA.“What happened to Matthew is not an isolated incident,” Ekeland said.
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