Love has a tendency to give the world a rosy glow, which is part of the reason so many people find themselves blindsided by a romance scam known as catfishing. But what is catfishing, exactly, and why ...

I t's about to get a whole lot harder for catfishers on Tinder. Starting today, new users in California will have to scan ...

So long as you're at least a pescetarian, some nice hot catfish with a squeeze of lemon and a side of hush puppies can be a wonderful thing—way less so when you encounter the online version of ...

According to the Federal Bureau of Investigations, there were more than 24,000 people catfished by romance scams in 2021. "I'm not able to have Facebook because I've been taken down like 25 times," ...

Tinder will soon expand its facial verification feature to users across the U.S., marking a major step in the dating app’s ...

Now, though, “chatfishing,” a new wave of online deception, is taking over dating apps. Instead of “catfishing”—using an ...

Editor’s Note: This story is part of ‘Systems Error’, a series by CNN As Equals, investigating how your gender shapes your life online. For information about how CNN As Equals is funded and more, ...