Facebook announces dating app focused on 'meaningful relationships'

Facebook is launching a new dating app on the social media platform, its CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, announced at an annual developer conference on Tuesday, unveiling a feature designed to compete with popular services like Tinder. Speaking in front of a packed crowd in San Jose, Zuckerberg described the new dating feature as a tool to build "real long-term relationships – not just hookups". "We want Facebook to be somewhere where you can start meaningful relationships," he continued. "We've designed this with privacy and safety in mind from the beginning." The announcement sparked gasps from the crowd and seemed to attract the most interest from the audience during Zuckerberg's short speech, which focused on the company's widening privacy scandal, new safeguards meant to protect users' data and misinformation and fake news on the site.