The Meet Group Reaffirms its Commitment to Industry Leading User Safety
June 14 2019 - 3:23PM
Business Wire
The Meet Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: MEET), a leading provider of
interactive livestreaming solutions, today reaffirmed its
commitment to industry leading user safety for its more than 15
million monthly active users.
The Meet Group makes user safety a top priority, devoting more
than 45% of its entire workforce to regulating the content of its
apps. The Company employs a variety of human and technological
filters to monitor all visual content. The Meet Group has also
developed a proprietary textual-monitoring threat detection system
that programmatically detects possible safety issues and alerts its
safety team of potential abuses.
The Meet Group has a zero-tolerance policy for abusive behavior
among its users and encourages its members to report abuse, with a
simple, one-click reporting feature. Users on its popular Live
feature can appoint other users as “Bouncers” to help moderate
their broadcasts. The Company removes more than 3,000 user profiles
per day as part of its content review process. The Meet Group also
provides its users with various privacy-setting options that allow
them to manage who can see their profile and make contact with
them. The Meet Group also allows its users to block specific
profiles entirely.
As part of its safety commitment, The Meet Group promptly and
proactively reports instances of abusive behavior and inappropriate
content posting to the proper authorities. In addition, the Company
promptly and proactively reports potential safety issues (such as
self-harm or potential suicidal behavior) to local authorities.
The Meet Group screens new daily registrants against databases
of known sex offenders in the United States and regularly screens
all active users against these same lists, blocking registrations
and activity from known sex offenders.
The Meet Group has taken numerous steps to educate its users
about the dangers of online activity, and in particular, the
potential dangers of meeting a stranger in person. The Company
prominently displays safety messages to every new user of its
mobile apps. The Meet Group never pinpoints users on a map, or
gives their exact locations.
The San Francisco City Attorney said The Meet Group’s safety and
privacy practices “set an industry standard for all social networks
at a time when they are increasingly accessed through mobile
devices.”
The Meet Group also participates proactively in industry safety
efforts, including serving on the members group of the Family
Online Safety Institute alongside representatives of
the largest global technology companies.
About The Meet Group
The Meet Group (NASDAQ: MEET) is a leading provider of
interactive livestreaming solutions designed to meet the universal
need for human connection. Our ecosystem of livestreaming apps
enables users around the world to interact through one-to-many
livestreaming broadcasts and text-based conversations. Our top
apps, MeetMe®, LOVOO®, Skout®, Tagged® and Growlr®, deliver live
interactions and meaningful connections to millions of users daily.
Headquartered in New Hope, PA, we have offices in Philadelphia, San
Francisco, Dresden, and Berlin. For more information,
visit themeetgroup.com, and follow us
on Facebook, Twitter or LinkedIn.
Forward-Looking Statements
Certain statements in this press release are forward-looking
statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation
Reform Act of 1995, including statements including the percentage
of our workforce we will devote to regulating the content of our
apps, whether we will continue to employ a variety of human and
technological filters to monitor content, including a real-time
human review of every newly posted image, whether we will continue
to use our proprietary textual-monitoring threat detection system
to programmatically detect possible safety issues, whether we will
continue to encourage our members to report abuse with a simple,
one-click reporting feature, whether we will continue to remove
user profiles as part of our content review process and if so at
what rate, whether we will continue to offer the Bouncer feature,
whether we will continue to provide our users with various
privacy-setting options that allow them to manage who can see their
profile and make contact with them, and to allow user to block
specific profiles entirely, whether we will continue to promptly
and proactively report instances of abusive behavior, inappropriate
content posting and potential safety issues to the proper
authorities, whether we will continue to screen each new daily
registrant against databases of known sex offenders in the United
States and regularly screen all active users against those same
lists, blocking registrations and activity from known sex
offenders, whether we will continue to take steps to educate our
users, and whether we will continue our policy of not locating
users on a map or giving their exact locations. All statements
other than statements of historical facts contained herein are
forward-looking statements. The words “believe,” “may,” “estimate,”
“continue,” “anticipate,” “intend,” “should,” “plan,” “could,”
“target,” “potential,” “project,” “outlook,” “is likely,” “expect”
and similar expressions, as they relate to us, are intended to
identify forward-looking statements. Further information on our
risk factors is contained in our filings with the Securities and
Exchange Commission (“SEC”), including the Form 10-K for the year
ended December 31, 2018 filed with the SEC on March 8,
2019. Any forward-looking statement made by us herein speaks only
as of the date on which it is made. Factors or events that could
cause our actual results to differ may emerge from time to time,
and it is not possible for us to predict all of them. We undertake
no obligation to publicly update any forward-looking statement,
whether as a result of new information, future developments or
otherwise, except as may be required by law.
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