Tea App Green Flags, a service that claims it can \u201cprotect your digital reputation,\u201d will remove negative posts about men from private online groups where women share \u201cred flags\u201d about men they\u2019ve dated in order to help other women.\u00a0The service is another escalation in the age of online dating, women attempting to protect each other from other men in the dating pool, and instances of men fighting against those efforts. It also shows how some of these allegedly private women\u2019s groups, especially the Tea app, are regularly infiltrated and manipulated by men.\u00a0When I reached out to an email listed on Tea App Green Flags\u2019s site, I got a call from a man behind the operation who identified only as Jay. He said he started the service about two years ago, and that he initially focused on the Are We Dating the Same Guy Facebook groups. For the past year, he\u2019s been offering services specifically for the Tea app, a \u201cdating safety\u201d app for women that suffered a devastating breach last year, and which my investigation revealed, was founded by a man who wanted to monetize the Are We Dating the Same guy phenomenon. The site also claims it can remove posts from Tea app copycat for men TeaOnHer, as well as posts on Instagram.Jay declined to say how much revenue the site generates, but claims he gets about 50 to 60 calls a day and currently has six employees. On its website, Tea App Green Flags claims it has removed more than 2,500 posts on the Tea app for 759 clients. Jay said that most of his clients are men, but that some are women who are trying to take down posts about their husbands or boyfriends.\u00a0\u201cWe just want to take down posts about people who are being defamed,\u201d Jay told me. \u201cAnd when I say defamed, it means like, \u2018this guy has a small penis,\u2019 or \u2018this guy smells.\u2019 That doesn’t fit the mission statement of what the Tea app was for, which is to warn women against people who are harmful, who are abusive, who are cheaters. We’ve noticed that a lot of the individuals that come to us, almost all of them, come to us for little stupid things.\u201dClients interested in Tea App Green Flags\u2019s services go to the site and fill out a form with their information and information about the posts they want removed. The company reviews the case and then starts the \u201ctakedown process,\u201d which can take between 21-30 days. Tea App Green Flags says it will then continue to monitor posts about the client and remove them for three months.\ud83d\udca1Were you impacted by the Tea hack? I would love to hear from you. Using a non-work device, you can message me securely on Signal at \u202a@emanuel.404\u202c. Otherwise, send me an email at emanuel@404media.co.When I asked Jay how this \u201ctakedown process\u201d works he said \u201cI can\u2019t give that info. That\u2019s the business.\u201dJay told me that he would not work with clients who have been accused of sexual assault by multiple people on the Tea app, or by one person in one of the Are We Dating the Same Guy Facebook groups who used their real name and face in a profile picture.\u00a0\u201cSometimes we find along the process that there are pedophiles or people who actually did what they did, and they’re very bad,\u201d Jay said. \u201cSo we say, we’re not doing this. We can’t take a rap for that. We’re ethical. We just want to take down people who are being defamed.\u201dJay told me he understands why Facebook groups like Are We Dating the Same Guy are necessary and thinks they are a good idea, but the anonymous nature of the Tea app “causes a cesspool of defamation.\u201d\u00a0When I asked Jay what he thinks about the fact that some women don\u2019t feel safe sharing information about some dangerous men unless they can do so anonymously, he said it would be better if women showed their face, or if the Tea app at least gave women that option.\u00a0\u201cI have a Tea app account. I’m a dude. All my reps have Tea app accounts. They’re men,\u201d Jay said. \u201cHow much can you trust these people and what they’re doing?\u201dOne reason the Tea app hack was so dangerous is because the app used to ask women to upload a picture of their face in order to verify that they are women. Those images were posted all over the internet because of the hack, putting those women at risk and leading to more harassment.\u00a0Tea App Green Flags is far from the first attempt from men trying to fight back against these types of groups. In 2024, for example, we wrote about a man who tried to sue women who posted about him in Are We Dating the Same Guy Facebook groups. His first case was dismissed, and he refiled days later as a class action lawsuit; later that year, he was sent to prison for tax fraud.Tea did not immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"