Right Wing Dating App Prompts Users to Share Details About January Sixth

The first critiques of the not too long ago launched, self-branded “conservative dating app,” The Right Stuff are in. And issues aren’t trying so good for the Peter Thiel-funded firm. Of the 197 critiques at the moment posted within the iOS retailer, practically 60 give the app a one-star ranking.

Some widespread reviewer complaints embrace that the app is brief on ladies, that the invite-only system makes it unattainable to really be part of, and that answering a profile immediate about January 6 led to contact from legislation enforcement.

“App asks about January 6th… I said I was there because I was, I’m a patriot…I get a call from an FBI agent the SAME DAY????,” reads one evaluate from a consumer underneath the identify “Big Chungus.” Another claims that, after making a Right Stuff profile, law enforcement officials confirmed up on the consumer’s residence, alleging they had been “involved in domestic terrorism.”

In a extra gentle grievance, one consumer asserts that “all the women on here have been replaced with doughy middle-aged white guys.” An issue the corporate appeared to wish to get forward of in its promoting, by highlighting a 100% very actual and genuine “group of conservative young women.”

To be truthful, many of those app retailer critiques are apparent trolls, and there’s no proof that the FBI or any police pressure has truly contacted Right Stuff customers. Also, a number of the knocks concerning the alleged lack of ladies are cloaked in some thick homophobia.

But what’s true is that the app does truly ask customers to answer an open-ended immediate about January 6—you recognize, so as to add a little bit spice to the profile. Gizmodo verified that the query seems within the profile creation section of establishing an account. And it’s very straightforward to think about individuals current the day of the Capitol riot coming into self-indicting info into that clean white field.

Parler, a extra distinguished right-wing social media platform, did in reality ship proof and consumer info to the FBI within the lead-up to the Jan. 6 Capitol assault (although the FBI apparently didn’t heed these warnings). So there’s a precedent for the sort of factor.

But in response to Gizmodo’s questions concerning the app and the posted critiques, the FBI’s National Press Office merely emailed that, “We have no comment to provide in response to your inquiry.” The company additionally directed Gizmodo to the D.C. District Attorney’s workplace web site, the place there’s a webpage documenting the continuing investigation and arrests made associated to the Jan. 6, 2021 revolt.

A Right Stuff spokesperson stated, “The claims that users were contacted by the FBI or that we forwarded information to law enforcement are completely false,” in an e-mail to Gizmodo.

When requested why the app particularly prompts customers to speak about Jan. 6, the corporate wrote, “Our prompts are used as fun conversation starters where users can share their personality through their opinions.”

Finally, addressing among the extra earnest-seeming, widespread complaints, Right Stuff’s spokesperson informed Gizmodo: “The app is invite only to ensure a high quality community of conservative users.”