Sunday, December 22, 2013

InterActiveCorp (owner of BlackPeopleMeet.com) executive fired for racist tweet

InterActiveCorp public relations executive Justine Sacco was fired for making a racist tweet beforing flying to South Africa. IAC is owner of the popular black dating website: BlackPeopleMeet.com. IAC is headed by media executive Barry Diller. IAC is a media congolomerate which owns several promonent brands including...

BlackPeopleMeet.com
Match.com
Vimeo
Dictionary.com
UrbanSpoon
HomeAdvisor
CollegeHumor
Ask.com and About.Com
OKCupid

BlackPeopleMeet.com is the largest African-American dating site. The web site was owned by People Media, Inc before acquisition by IAC. People Media, Inc. Reported total revenues of $1.2 billion in 2009.

BlackPeopleMeet also previously worked with the Steve Harvey morning show to arange on-the-air dates. There is no mention of the Steve Harvey Show on BlackPeopleMeet.com nor is there a mention of BlackPeopleMeet.com on the SteveHarvey.com website. However, the press release contains a reference to http://www.blackpeoplemeet.com/steve-harvey.  The link is no longer active.

Here is an old PR news release on PRNews.com. "#1 Black Dating site, BlackPeopleMeet.com and Steve Harvey Morning show team up to launch Radio Date Segment"


6 comments:

2scared said...

Why are people being over charge? Make me scared to join.

Unknown said...

Why dies bpm senour have so many men on there using this site as a hookup! I thought this site was suppose to help you find real love but half of these men are liars not who they say they arescammers asking women for money an just outright disrespectful it jyst disgust me when im really trying to find love an they looking fir a booty call! You would think older men would be wiser not so! My experience with this dating app has been truly disheartening

Unknown said...

Black people meet is very disheartening. First when you decide not to continue the membership is when they say you have 2000 matches, 1500 flirts and 10000 views. This is to entice you to join again. I fail for it once. Its a scam. Yes there are potential matches just not as they state.

Unknown said...

There are many complaints I have, just dont feel anything will change

Unknown said...

Why can't I find a telephone number where I can talk to someone about my account?

Anonymous said...

This site is so anciently designed and they DON'T care about updating it! There are so many FAKE accounts and users pretending to be whom they aren't! BPM literally has unnecessary message feature that should be removed! BPM need to screen and monitor users! Barry Diller DON'T care about the largest dating site he owns and maybe because it's majority black users. SMH

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