Software:WhiteDate

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WhiteDate was a white supremacist[1][2] online dating website. It launched in 2017, and was shut down in December 2025 by pseudonymous hacker Martha Root.

History

WhiteDate was created in 2017.[3] It was co-founded by Christiane Horn, a German woman from Schleswig-Holstein who operates under the pseudonym "Liv Heide".[3][4] In 2019, she wrote in the white supremacist publication American Renaissance that she wanted to encourage "woke white people" to "look at humans as animal breeders look at animals."[3]

In 2018, WhiteDate ran an advertisement on Reddit encouraging white women to join the website. A Reddit spokeswoman said the ad had slipped past human reviewers and was taken down the next day.[5][6] As of April 2018, WhiteDate had a Reddit account, but it stated it had been banned from advertising on Reddit.[5]

In December 2025, pseudonymous hacker Martha Root shut down WhiteDate, together with its affiliated websites WhiteChild (a service for connecting white supremacist sperm and egg donors) and WhiteDeal (a whites-only freelancing website), during the Chaos Communication Congress in Hamburg, Germany.[7][1] Root also breached the website's user database and published its user profiles online.[7][1] Prior to shutting down the website, Root used an AI chatbot to obtain as much information as possible from WhiteDate's users.[1][8] WhiteDate's administrator said on X in response to the hack, "They publicly delete all my websites while the audience rejoices. This is cyberterrorism."[9]

Users

Die Zeit journalist Eva Hoffmann has characterised WhiteDate as "Tinder for Nazis".[1] As of December 2025, the website had over 6,500 users, 86% of whom were men.[1] Die Zeit reported in October 2025 that the website's German user base included members of the German far-right party Alternative for Germany, anti-abortion activists and neo-Nazis.[4]

In January 2026, The Observer reported that the site's users included a former member of the British National Party, members of the neo-Nazi group Patriotic Alternative and a man who ran for office in the Britain First party.[2] Glastonbury councillor Lillith Osborn was suspended from the Conservative Party after she was found in the website's user list.[2]

In February 2026, Texas-based news website The Barbed Wire reported that it had identified around 300 WhiteDate users in Texas.[10] That March, CBC News reported that it had matched 200 WhiteDate accounts from the leaked data to real people in Canada, including three members of the Canadian Armed Forces.[11]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 Tangermann, Victor (2026-01-06). "Woman Hacks "Tinder for Nazis," Tricks the Racist Users Into Falling in Love With AI Chatbots" (in en-US). https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/tinder-for-nazis-hacked. 
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Greenwood, Xavier (11 January 2026). "White supremacist dating site profiles linked to Tory and Reform councillors" (in en). https://observer.co.uk/news/national/article/tory-and-reform-profiles-linked-to-white-supremacist-dating-site. 
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Lavin, Talia (2020-10-09). "Going Undercover on a Racist Dating Site" (in en-US). The Nation. ISSN 0027-8378. https://www.thenation.com/article/society/white-supremacy-dating/. 
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Fuchs, Christian; Hoffmann, Eva (2025-10-08). "WhiteDate: Dinkel88 sucht nach Liebe" (in de-DE). Die Zeit. ISSN 0044-2070. https://www.zeit.de/gesellschaft/2025-10/whitedate-rechtsextremismus-datingportal-white-supremacy-schleswig-holstein/komplettansicht. 
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Sloane, Garett (April 5, 2018). "Reddit ad for racist site urges whites to 'continue their lineage'" (in en). https://adage.com/article/digital/reddit-ad-racist-trad-revolution-dating-site/313011/. 
  6. ↑ "Hating, Dating and Procreating: Online Dating and the Alt-Right" (in en-US). 2018-05-18. https://hopenothate.org.uk/2018/05/18/hating-dating-procreating-online-dating-alt-right-2/. 
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 "Researcher Wipes White Supremacist Dating Sites, Leaks Data on okstupid.lol" (in en-US). 2026-01-05. https://hackread.com/white-supremacist-dating-sites-wiped-okstupid-lol/. 
  8. ↑ "Hacktivist takes down white supremacist websites on stage at conference" (in en-GB). 2026-01-08. https://searchlightmagazine.com/2026/01/hacktivist-takes-down-white-supremacist-websites-on-stage-at-conference/. 
  9. ↑ Franceschi-Bicchierai, Lorenzo (2026-01-05). "Hacktivist deletes white supremacist websites live onstage during hacker conference" (in en-US). https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/hacktivist-deletes-white-supremacist-websites-185731964.html. 
  10. ↑ Monacelli, Steven; Phalen, Kyle (2026-02-24). "We Analyzed 300 Texas Accounts on a White Supremacist Dating Site. The Data Explains a Lot About Politics Right Now." (in en-US). https://thebarbedwire.com/2026/02/24/300-texas-accounts-white-supremacist-dating-site-politics-right-now/. 
  11. ↑ Paas-Lang, Christian; Angelovski, Ivan; Pearson, Jordan (Mar 9, 2026). "Canadian military personnel identified on white supremacist dating site". https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/whitedate-canada-military-9.7117307. 



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