The journalist who provoked the wrath of Tinder is back with an HBO documentary that shows the bleak reality of dating apps

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• "The Bling Ring" author Nancy Jo Sales debuts her first documentary, “Swiped: Hooking Up in the Digital Age,” on HBO at 10 p.m. Monday.
• The doc paints a bleak picture of modern dating, and captures remarkably candid interviews with 20-something men and women on their experiences, as well as experts and dating-app execs.
• "Swiped" bloomed from reporting Sales did for a 2015 Vanity Fair article, which provoked the rage of Tinder and spurred a public debate about dating apps.
• The film's main flaw is that, in its focus on the changes dating apps have made to the lives of young people, it ignores those who use them in more prosaic (read: boring) ways.

No journalist has gotten under Tinder’s skin quite like Nancy Jo Sales.

In 2015, a story Sales wrote for Vanity Fair that probed the dark side of dating apps and hookup culture — provocatively titled “Tinder and the Dawn of the ‘Dating Apocalypse’” — went viral. Tinder was not pleased, to put it mildly. The dating app’s official Twitter account had a public meltdown, tweeting at Sales dozens of times in the next 24 hours about the article.See the rest of the story at Business Insider

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