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Politics
Dominic Giannini

Popular dating apps ban thousands for abuse, harassment

Three quarters of dating app users have experienced some form of abuse. (Joel Carrett/AAP PHOTOS)

Thousands of accounts across Australia's most popular dating apps have been taken down for abuse, harassment and violent conduct. 

The federal government cracked down on platforms failing to protect users after alarming statistics revealing three-in-four users experienced some form of dating app-facilitated abuse and one in five reported being threatened.

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