CyberNews reports on Martha Root, a pseudonymous hacker who single-handedly infiltrated and shut down a series of websites dedicated to white power:
The leak affects WhiteDate, a white supremacist dating site for “Europids seeking tribal love,” WhiteChild, a white supremacist site focused on family and ancestry, and WhiteDeal, a networking and professional development site for people with a racist worldview.
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The researcher created a website okstupid.lol, where 8,000 leaked profiles are placed on the map, exposing users from very different regions of the world.
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Notably, the dataset also contains numerous profile photos, along with embedded EXIF metadata that reveals precise GPS coordinates, device information, timestamps, and other identifying details.
The researcher claims that image metadata “practically hands out home addresses.”
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Investigative journalists and Root presented the data and findings at the 39th Chaos Communications Congress in Germany.
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The journalist initially created fake accounts on the platforms, driven by a large language model. She used Ollama and local models. The bots were so convincing that they bypassed the verification process and were even verified as “white.”
“Some of WhiteDate’s most dedicated Aryan suitors spent weeks chatting with a chatbot trained, prompted, and monitored by me. And while they flirted with their perfect trad wife, I collected data, screenshots, patterns, plans,” the researcher said.
Root spent a few months documenting WhiteDate.net’s userbase, ideology, and the woman running the platform.
“She’s trying to build a full-blown fascist white supremacy network disguised as a dating app. She doesn’t want journalists snooping around. She warns her users about feds and anti-white infiltrators.”
Some users even fell in love with realistic-looking chatbots.
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This wasn’t in the CyberNews article, but Martha Root subsequently, per TechCrunch/Yahoo!News, shut down the sites live on stage.