Press release

The Meet Group Reaffirms its Commitment to Industry Leading User Safety

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The Meet Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: MEET), a leading provider of interactive
livestreaming solutions, today reaffirmed its commitment to industry
leading user safety for its more than 15 million monthly active users.

The Meet Group makes user safety a top priority, devoting more than 45%
of its entire workforce to regulating the content of its apps. The
Company employs a variety of human and technological filters to monitor
all visual content. The Meet Group has also developed a proprietary
textual-monitoring threat detection system that programmatically detects
possible safety issues and alerts its safety team of potential abuses.

The Meet Group has a zero-tolerance policy for abusive behavior among
its users and encourages its members to report abuse, with a simple,
one-click reporting feature. Users on its popular Live feature can
appoint other users as “Bouncers” to help moderate their broadcasts. The
Company removes more than 3,000 user profiles per day as part of its
content review process. The Meet Group also provides its users with
various privacy-setting options that allow them to manage who can see
their profile and make contact with them. The Meet Group also allows its
users to block specific profiles entirely.

As part of its safety commitment, The Meet Group promptly and
proactively reports instances of abusive behavior and inappropriate
content posting to the proper authorities. In addition, the Company
promptly and proactively reports potential safety issues (such as
self-harm or potential suicidal behavior) to local authorities.

The Meet Group screens new daily registrants against databases of known
sex offenders in the United States and regularly screens all active
users against these same lists, blocking registrations and activity from
known sex offenders.

The Meet Group has taken numerous steps to educate its users about the
dangers of online activity, and in particular, the potential dangers of
meeting a stranger in person. The Company prominently displays safety
messages to every new user of its mobile apps. The Meet Group never
pinpoints users on a map, or gives their exact locations.

The San Francisco City Attorney said The Meet Group’s safety and privacy
practices “set an industry standard for all social networks at a time
when they are increasingly accessed through mobile devices.”

The Meet Group also participates proactively in industry safety efforts,
including serving on the members group of the Family Online Safety
Institute alongside representatives of the largest global
technology companies.

About The Meet Group

The Meet Group (NASDAQ: MEET) is a leading provider of interactive
livestreaming solutions designed to meet the universal need for human
connection. Our ecosystem of livestreaming apps enables users around the
world to interact through one-to-many livestreaming broadcasts and
text-based conversations. Our top apps, MeetMe®, LOVOO®, Skout®, Tagged®
and Growlr®, deliver live interactions and meaningful connections to
millions of users daily. Headquartered in New Hope, PA, we have offices
in Philadelphia, San Francisco, Dresden, and Berlin. For more
information, visit themeetgroup.com,
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Forward-Looking Statements

Certain statements in this press release are forward-looking statements
within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of
1995, including statements including the percentage of our workforce we
will devote to regulating the content of our apps, whether we will
continue to employ a variety of human and technological filters to
monitor content, including a real-time human review of every newly
posted image, whether we will continue to use our proprietary
textual-monitoring threat detection system to programmatically detect
possible safety issues, whether we will continue to encourage our
members to report abuse with a simple, one-click reporting feature,
whether we will continue to remove user profiles as part of our content
review process and if so at what rate, whether we will continue to offer
the Bouncer feature, whether we will continue to provide our users with
various privacy-setting options that allow them to manage who can see
their profile and make contact with them, and to allow user to block
specific profiles entirely, whether we will continue to promptly and
proactively report instances of abusive behavior, inappropriate content
posting and potential safety issues to the proper authorities, whether
we will continue to screen each new daily registrant against databases
of known sex offenders in the United States and regularly screen all
active users against those same lists, blocking registrations and
activity from known sex offenders, whether we will continue to take
steps to educate our users, and whether we will continue our policy of
not locating users on a map or giving their exact locations. All
statements other than statements of historical facts contained herein
are forward-looking statements. The words “believe,” “may,” “estimate,”
“continue,” “anticipate,” “intend,” “should,” “plan,” “could,” “target,”
“potential,” “project,” “outlook,” “is likely,” “expect” and similar
expressions, as they relate to us, are intended to identify
forward-looking statements. Further information on our risk factors is
contained in our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission
(“SEC”), including the Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2018
filed with the SEC on March 8, 2019. Any forward-looking statement made
by us herein speaks only as of the date on which it is made. Factors or
events that could cause our actual results to differ may emerge from
time to time, and it is not possible for us to predict all of them. We
undertake no obligation to publicly update any forward-looking
statement, whether as a result of new information, future developments
or otherwise, except as may be required by law.