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After a crowd of supporters of U.S. President Donald Trump stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, Snopes received reports that some users of online dating applications were using the sites not to make romantic connections but to out people who participated in the deadly insurrection.
“Women have been contacting the FBI due to men bragging about storming the Capitol on their tinder profiles,” one person wrote on Twitter.
The claims were true.
Users of Tinder, Bumble, and other dating apps scanned the apps for profiles of people who resembled rioters in widely publicized photos of the siege and then shared that information with company representatives and/or investigative authorities, according to reputable news reports. The Washington Post reported on Jan. 16: