Dating app fires back at billboard linking it to STD spread
SCREENGRAB FROM THE AIDS HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION WEBSITE
LOS ANGELES— A popular dating app is telling a Los Angeles-based AIDS health care group to take down a billboard that links dating apps with sexual diseases.
The AIDS Healthcare Foundation said Monday that it received a cease-and-desist letter from Tinder that claims the billboard falsely associates the dating app with venereal diseases.
Article continues after this advertisementThe foundation’s billboard shows a silhouette of a man labeled “Tinder” face-to-face with a woman labeled “chlamydia.” A silhouette of a man labeled “Grindr,” a gay dating app, faces a male silhouette labeled “gonorrhea.”
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The foundation says it sent a letter to Tinder saying it will not take down the billboard.
Article continues after this advertisementThe foundation provides health care to HIV and AIDS patients and says its campaign is designed to remind dating-app users about the risk of casual sex.
