After raising $200 million to build the next Facebook, IRL’s ousted CEO reacts to the company shutting down and most of its users being fake, saying he “believed in our metrics.” After ...

Ironically, the social app IRL‘s users do not exist in real life. An internal investigation by IRL’s board of directors found that 95% of the app’s reported 20 million users were ...

Valued at more than $1 billion, the social app IRL is shutting down after an investigation found that most of its users were fake. Credit: Mashable screenshot IRL, a social app meant to connect ...

San Francisco social startup IRL shuts down after alleged shady behavior by ousted CEO. By Joshua Bote, Tech Editor Updated June 26, 2023 4:20 p.m.

The social media founder of pandemic unicorn IRL was charged in a $170 million fraud, allegedly swindling investors by lying about its popularity and splurging company money on personal expenses ...

IRL was a social messaging platform that had raised $200 million and saw its valuation skyrocket to more than $1 billion in a short period of time. Most of its users were fake.