Dating apps are using Capitol images to ban rioters' accounts

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Dating apps are using Capitol images to ban rioters’ accounts
Bumble, Tinder and others are freezing out rioters with help from law enforcement -- and, in some cases, their own photos. Others on the apps have taken matters into their own hands by striking up...
washingtonpost.com
3:20 PM · Jan 16, 2021

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/01/16/siege-dating-app-bans/

Tinder, Bumble and other dating apps are using images captured from inside the Capitol siege and other evidence to identify and ban rioters’ accounts, causing immediate consequences for those who participated as police move toward making hundreds of arrests.

Women and men have in some cases also turned the dating apps into hunting grounds, striking up conversations with rioters, gathering potentially incriminating photos or confessions, then relaying them to the FBI. Using the dating apps to pursue members of the mob has become a viral pursuit, with tips shared on Twitter and some women changing their location on the dating apps to Washington, D.C., in hopes of ensnaring a potential suspect.

The moves cast a spotlight on how some unlikely sources have helped expand a digital dragnet for participants in a siege with deeply online roots, fueled by viral conspiracy theories, organized on social media and live-streamed in real-time.

They also show how people are attempting to use the same tools to fight back, including by contributing to a wide-scale manhunt for dating-app users who played a part in the violent attack.
There's no evidence of antifa. But many identifiable Trump supporters were in the Capitol mob.

Some Trump allies have speculated that antifa was responsible for inciting violence and storming the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6. No evidence supports this claim. (The Washington Post)
Amanda Spataro, a 25-year-old logistics coordinator in Tampa, called it her “civic duty” to swipe through dating apps for men who’d posted incriminating pictures of themselves. On Bumble, she found one man with a picture that seemed likely to have come from the insurrection; his response to a prompt about his “perfect first date” was: “Storming the Capitol.”

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[Lunabell]

1. Lol, their anti mask stance

will be their undoing.

[blogslut]

3. ain't it a hoot?

[Hekate]

2. Sounds good to me