After a disastrous stint at Twitter as the chief censor of the platforms infamous “trust and safety” team, Yoel Roth now plans to bring his censorship skills to a new task — cleaning up the seedy underbelly of online dating as Match Group’s head of trust and safety.
Wired reports that online dating giant Match Group has a new head of “trust and safety,” and he comes with plenty of baggage. Yoel Roth, fresh off a fiasco at Twitter that culminated in his abrupt departure, has landed a new job trying to keep romance-seekers safe on Match Group’s hookup apps including Tinder.
Roth served as Twitter’s head of trust and safety until a few weeks into Elon Musk’s chaotic takeover, when he was essentially run off after being targeted by Musk himself and an embarrassing leak of internal communications. Now Roth will attempt to rehab his…
