In my ears as a single guy, I’ve gotten used to women running background checks before meeting me for a drink. It’s only common sense, these days, what with n ews and the Lifetime network getting women convinced that men are serial killers oh or Keith Ellison until proven otherwise. I can’t say I blame them.
But a new dating app apparently goes above and beyond.
The app, called The Right Stuff, starts with two strikes against it; it’s invite only, it doesn’t have a whole lot of women on it (which is not all that unusual on any dating sites and apps)…
… and it also appears to draw FBI attention. (ia Power Line):
But now, a third complaint is emerging from users — that answering a profile prompt question that asked “January 6 was …” has led to them being contacted by law enforcement.
A quick scroll through the reviews in the app store reveal several comments complaining of having a phone call from the FBI shortly after filling out the profile.
And it’s online feedback for a dating app.
But does anybody honestly think this sort of thing would be above Joe Biden‘s FBI?
Best Bios From The Conservatives-Only Online Dating Site ‘The Right Stuff’
https://www.theonion.com/best-bios-from-the-conservatives-only-online-dating-sit-1849642523
I had the impression this was a Conservatives—only dating app. Which was created by the sister of Trump’s ex-press secretary Kayleigh McEnany and funded by billionaire Peter Thiel looking for ‘people that see the world the right way.
I’m feeling a bit rejected by MBerg’s SiTD dating app — Akismet. Apparently no really means no ….
I don’t understand why “right wing dating sites” are needed. If you are a single conservative guy, get involved in a church and somehow you will be matched up with and appropriate woman. It just happens.
The whole world of dating apps and websites just seems so weird, like people selling shoes door to door. How can this be? In what economic model is it predicted that selling shoes (or brushes, or encyclopedias) is an economically efficient enterprise? The fact that you are a man looking for dates with an app kind of marks you as a loser.
Now if you are a guy looking for a hooker, an app makes perfect sense.
My brother participates in social media with the question “What would Chairman Mao do with this information?”, which is to say, he really doesn’t participate at all. It is sad to contemplate the likelihood that the question should read “President Joe” or “AG Merrick” instead of “Chairman Mao”.
OK, not proven yet, sure. But troubling.
One thing that comes to mind, though. Could it be that the application allows people to see others’ phone numbers, and somebody is pranking them? I’m thankfully not terribly familiar with FBI investigations, with the exception of being interviewed a time or two to screen friends for security clearances, so I’m not even quite sure they do very many phone calls.
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Apparently dating apps are populated by many bots. The purpose of the bots is to collect personal information, usually for financial scams.
https://www.wired.com/story/i-uncovered-an-army-of-fake-men-on-hinge/
It is not difficult to believe that Biden’s JD would use a Trumpy dating site to harvest data on Trump supporters.
Going a little further down the rabbit hole: https://bit.ly/3TmIiFS
So what you have here is organized crime in SE Asia enslaving people and using them to be the human behind possibly hundreds of fake profiles on dating apps. The enslaved worker gains the confidence of the dating app user and scams them by having them “invest” in a fake crypto currency. All of the transactions are in crypto currency.
The victims of the scammers seem to be mostly females, but that may be selection bias.