WhiteDate
WhiteDate is a white supremacist [1] [2] online dating website. It launched in 2017, and was temporarily shut down in December 2025 by pseudonymous hacker Martha Root, who also breached the site's data.
History
[edit ]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
[edit ]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]
Germany
[edit ]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]
United Kingdom
[edit ]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]
United States and Canada
[edit ]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
[edit ]- ^ a b c d e f Tangermann, Victor (2026年01月06日). "Woman Hacks "Tinder for Nazis," Tricks the Racist Users Into Falling in Love With AI Chatbots". Futurism . Retrieved 2026年03月11日.
- ^ a b c Greenwood, Xavier (11 January 2026). "White supremacist dating site profiles linked to Tory and Reform councillors". The Observer . Retrieved 2026年03月11日.
- ^ a b c Lavin, Talia (2020年10月09日). "Going Undercover on a Racist Dating Site". The Nation . ISSN 0027-8378 . Retrieved 2026年03月11日.
- ^ a b Fuchs, Christian; Hoffmann, Eva (2025年10月08日). "WhiteDate: Dinkel88 sucht nach Liebe" [WhiteDate: Dinkel88 is looking for love]. Die Zeit (in German). ISSN 0044-2070 . Retrieved 2026年03月11日.
- ^ a b Sloane, Garett (April 5, 2018). "Reddit ad for racist site urges whites to 'continue their lineage'". Ad Age . Retrieved 2026年03月11日.
- ^ "Hating, Dating and Procreating: Online Dating and the Alt-Right". Hope Not Hate . 2018年05月18日. Retrieved 2026年03月11日.
- ^ a b "Researcher Wipes White Supremacist Dating Sites, Leaks Data on okstupid.lol". HackRead . 2026年01月05日. Retrieved 2026年03月11日.
- ^ "Hacktivist takes down white supremacist websites on stage at conference". Searchlight . 2026年01月08日. Retrieved 2026年03月11日.
- ^ Franceschi-Bicchierai, Lorenzo (2026年01月05日). "Hacktivist deletes white supremacist websites live onstage during hacker conference". TechCrunch . Retrieved 2026年03月11日 – via Yahoo News.
- ^ Monacelli, Steven; Phalen, Kyle (2026年02月24日). "We Analyzed 300 Texas Accounts on a White Supremacist Dating Site. The Data Explains a Lot About Politics Right Now". The Barbed Wire . Retrieved 2026年03月11日.
- ^ Paas-Lang, Christian; Angelovski, Ivan; Pearson, Jordan (Mar 9, 2026). "Canadian military personnel identified on white supremacist dating site". CBC News .