Judith Duportail is an independent journalist investigating the use of personal data by big companies and how tech mediates human intimacy.

The Times described her as "the French woman who took on Tinder" after she published an investigative book about modern love, L'amour sous algorithme. 

Basic information

Name
Judith Duportail
Expertise
Tech companies, algorithms
Country
Germany
City
Berlin

Supported projects

Online dating: a separate universe for men and women

  • Data Journalism
  • Industry

BERLIN - Are online dating applications designed to make us react in a certain way? Why do men do not attract enough attention and women increasingly receive insults and inappropriate messages? Our grantees, Judith Duportail and Nicolas Kayser-Bril, investigated how the architecture of a dating application influences how users behave. 

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