Tech CEO Exposes Shady Motive Behind Facebook’s New Dating Service

While Facebook’s new Dating application — revealed at its F8 developers conference earlier this week — hasn’t entirely taken everyone’s eyes off of Zuckerberg’s congressional testimony, the Cambridge Analytica scandal or the censorship of politically-unpopular voices, it certainly hasn’t hurt. . .

Didier Rappaport, CEO of online dating platform Happn, says the timing of the announcement makes it appear an awful lot like a distraction as opposed to a serious move into the dating market, implying it was designed to make the social media giant’s problems “disappear” . . .

“It’s quite interesting to note this announcement has been done just a few weeks after the Cambridge Analytica concerns,” he added, telling Business Insider that it might have been launched in part so that Facebook wasn’t forced to “talk about the past.”

Rappaport also said the fact that Facebook didn’t acquire a more established dating app shows they’re trying to ameliorate another problem: falling usage totals.

While Facebook’s profits were up in the final quarter of last year, Deutsche Welle reported in February, time spent on the platform was down globally by 50 million hours a day in 2017 and the number of Facebook users in the key U.S. and Canadian markets fell for the first time. (Read more from “Tech Ceo Exposes Shady Motive Behind Facebook’s New Dating Service” HERE)

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