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
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]
Germany
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
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
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
- ^ a b c d e f Tangermann, Victor (2026-01-06). “Woman Hacks “Tinder for Nazis,” Tricks the Racist Users Into Falling in Love With AI Chatbots”. Futurism. Retrieved 2026-03-11.
- ^ a b c Greenwood, Xavier (11 January 2026). “White supremacist dating site profiles linked to Tory and Reform councillors”. The Observer. Retrieved 2026-03-11.
- ^ a b c Lavin, Talia (2020-10-09). “Going Undercover on a Racist Dating Site”. The Nation. ISSN 0027-8378. Retrieved 2026-03-11.
- ^ a b Fuchs, Christian; Hoffmann, Eva (2025-10-08). “WhiteDate: Dinkel88 sucht nach Liebe” [WhiteDate: Dinkel88 is looking for love]. Die Zeit (in German). ISSN 0044-2070. Retrieved 2026-03-11.
- ^ a b Sloane, Garett (April 5, 2018). “Reddit ad for racist site urges whites to ‘continue their lineage’“. Ad Age. Retrieved 2026-03-11.
- ^ “Hating, Dating and Procreating: Online Dating and the Alt-Right”. Hope Not Hate. 2018-05-18. Retrieved 2026-03-11.
- ^ a b “Researcher Wipes White Supremacist Dating Sites, Leaks Data on okstupid.lol”. HackRead. 2026-01-05. Retrieved 2026-03-11.
- ^ “Hacktivist takes down white supremacist websites on stage at conference”. Searchlight. 2026-01-08. Retrieved 2026-03-11.
- ^ Franceschi-Bicchierai, Lorenzo (2026-01-05). “Hacktivist deletes white supremacist websites live onstage during hacker conference”. TechCrunch. Retrieved 2026-03-11 – via Yahoo News.
- ^ 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”. The Barbed Wire. Retrieved 2026-03-11.
- ^ Paas-Lang, Christian; Angelovski, Ivan; Pearson, Jordan (Mar 9, 2026). “Canadian military personnel identified on white supremacist dating site”. CBC News.