New Delhi, Oct. 8 -- Dating app Tinder has launched a new Face Check feature in order to improve user safety and eliminate fake profiles on the platform. The move is aimed at tackling the growing problem of bots, impersonation, and romance scams on the dating platform.

Tinder will now require new users to complete a mandatory video selfie to ensure if he person is real and if their face matches their profile photos. The system involves doing a 'liveness check' to ensure if the video is of a real person while also checking if he face is used across multiple accounts.

If the photo of the user matches, they will automatically get a Photo Verified badge, signalling to potential matches that the profile belongs to a real user.

The feature w...