How pop-up ads, paywalled features and boardroom decisions degraded the quality of one of the world’s most popular dating apps
Denio Lourenco
Denio Lourenco is a Toronto-based investigative journalist who covers a wide range of social and political issues. He has written extensively about how policies, laws and institutions affect LGBTQ2S+ people for national publications, including NBC News, The Globe and Mail, VICE and more.
Denio holds a master’s degree from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism and a Bachelor of Arts in political science and gender studies from the University of Toronto.
He speaks English and Portuguese.
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