WhiteDate
White supremacist online dating website
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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]