“Imagine calling yourselves the ‘master race’ but forgetting to secure your own website… Maybe try mastering… WordPress before world domination.” – Martha Root, hacktivist. [Source: HackRead]

On the Fourth of July, Patriot Front founder Thomas Rousseau led hundreds of masked members of his white nationalist group through Washington, D.C., under the Confederate flag. Dressed in khaki trousers, blue shirts, caps, and white face coverings, they struggled to make it through the Union Station Metro turnstiles to chant ‘Reclaim America’ around major landmarks.

It may be surprising that these self-proclaimed ‘defenders of Western civilisation’ are, more often than not, struggling to get a date.

“Its very hard to find a women [sic] nowadays that is white positive and wants a traditional relationship. I absolutely despise race mixing, I think its the trashiest thing a white women can do.” – An anonymous WhiteDate user. [Source: The Barbed Wire]

White supremacists pinball from race science to relationship advice with whiplash-inducing speed. Being single isn’t just sad. It’s politically irresponsible. As racist-du-jour Rousseau is fond of saying, “our people face complete annihilation”. Demographic collapse is imminent, and interracial relationships are a civilisational threat; a ‘blood and soil’ approach to saving the noble White Man requires that white people need to have white babies - and fast. However, many white supremacists find it nearly impossible to find a partner who shares their worldview. It turns out defining the ‘best’ of women as ‘shield maidens’, ‘fashy femmes’, and ‘trad wives’ - and the ‘worst’ as the ‘brainwashed’ enemy - doesn’t have a great success rate when it comes to heterosexual attraction. Personal rejection is reframed as cultural persecution, nihilistic whining about which begets more rejection. Collective grievance spiral, ad infinitum. 

Their solution? Welcome to the tragicomic world of ‘ethnodating’. 

White supremacists are eager to justify their discriminatory way of finding love. There's a dating site for everyone, they argue: Jdate for Jewish singles, ChristianMingle for Evangelicals, FarmersOnly for farmers. For “Europids seeking tribal love”, aka lonely Nazis, there’s WhiteDate.

As the site’s founder wrote in notorious white supremacist publication American Renaissance, WhiteDate aims to encourage "white people" to "look at humans as animal breeders look at animals." Launched in 2017, WhiteDate explicitly markets itself as a whites-only dating platform - gaining it a nickname: ‘Tinder for Nazis’. 

“My blonde hair and blue eyes were never made to muddle with this influx of brown immigrants and Jewish propaganda.” – An anonymous WhiteDate user from Austin, Texas. [Source: The Barbed Wire]

Love and romance, stripped of its humanity, becomes just another recruitment funnel. Naturally, this raises valid questions about the true purpose of ethnodating. There’s a whole host of ostensibly-relevant written propaganda available (including for sale) on WhiteDate. If you’re planning to recruit, radicalize and build an extremist community, dating platforms provide 1-to-1 private communication; an excuse to approach strangers, and form close relationships that easily transition into radicalisation pathways. Shared attraction lowers resistance to even the most unpalatable ideology. Hate doesn’t sound so hateful when it comes with a dose of love on the side. 

WhiteDate’s two associated platforms offer other whites-only services too, and the same opportunities for indoctrination. WhiteChild hosts white pronatalist content, including ways to donate ‘white seed’ to other white families. WhiteDeal is a whites-only freelancing site offering only white staff - if it really matters to you that a white man mows your lawn or develops your website. More likely, WhiteDeal offers a way for Nazis to access a workforce of other Nazis willing to do anything. These are places for bad people to get together, and make each other worse. 

“I poked around the digital love bunker so you don't have to (you're welcome, probably).” – Martha Root, hacktivist. [Source: okstupid.lol]

In December 2025, the ‘WhiteNetwork’ had a rude awakening. A woman in a pink Power Ranger costume took the stage at the 39th Chaos Communications Congress in Hamburg, Germany. Surrounded by other hackers at this annual conference, Martha Root (a pseudonym) presented data from her infiltration of WhiteDate. The site’s security, she showed, “would make even your grandma’s AOL account blush”. By simply typing a URL, it was easy to download the WordPress-based site’s entire user list. 

Root published the raw data, as OSINT, on ‘OKStupid.lol’: all 8,000 profiles and 100GB.

Suddenly, Nazis were faced by something they don’t like - consequences. People in power, found on the site, lost their jobs. Multiple exposes named and shamed anyone with an account. To be sure of these leaked identities, however, takes some OSINT work of its own. 

‘Just be yourself’ is the dating truism most mothers repeat. If you’re a proud Nazi, you know this advice isn’t going to work for you. For the same reasons Patriot Front will only march in masks (even if it makes them the laughing stock of the far-right), users on WhiteDate wear digital disguises. Counterintuitive? Not when the parties seeking love are, for most of the mainstream, repellent in their views. To prevent Nazi-life colliding with real-life in embarrassing ways, users create a gap between their ‘white nationalist selves’ and ‘professional selves’; between their online and real identities. To make an ID, investigators just need to reunite the two. 

For this process of ‘identity resolution’, OSINT proves ideal - and what better way to populate an identity than OSINT Industries.

Using Root’s ‘OKStupid’ data, more detailed user logs she made available to journalists, and OSINT Industries searches, Canada’s CBC News Visual Investigations Unit exposed WhiteDate users in their country’s jurisdiction. They found more than 500 accounts, of which roughly 200 have been matched back to real Nazis. In three cases, the most disturbing part was not only who they found, but where they worked: as high-ranking military personnel, in the Canadian Armed Forces.

Meet the CBC Visual Investigations Team.

“OSINT is the backbone of modern investigative journalism.” – Dylan H*, Investigative Journalist and Producer, CBC Visual Investigations Team. [Source: OSINT Industries]

Dylan H*, an investigative journalist and producer, works with the Visual Investigations team at Canada’s CBC News. He made contact with OSINT Industries to describe the crucial role this tool played in the team’s investigation.

Email and phone number lookups are the most frequent searches the CBC VI team use; these are the “most common unique identifiers found in data leaks and whistleblower submissions.” When a journalist has a “single data point like a handle or email”, Dylan describes, the next stage is to build “a broader digital profile” from which to “map out the digital footprint” of an investigative subject.  

More importantly, journalists have to “make sure we are identifying the correct person before reaching out for comment”. Without the ability to investigate these identifiers swiftly and easily, a journalist can stumble at the all-important “verification step”. It’s one thing to have a name; another thing entirely to know for sure who it is, and therefore what you can do with it. 

In the WhiteDate case, the CBC VI team faced the usual hurdle when investigating Nazis. Predictably, most users used pseudonyms. To investigate, the team needed “a tool that could quickly check where these emails were registered across other social platforms to confirm the identities of the CAF members.”

OSINT Industries was the right tool. It allowed Dylan and the team to “see which accounts were linked to the same recovery emails or phone numbers”. OSINT could “bridge the gap between a ‘white nationalist persona’ and a "professional military identity" - and "quickly perform identity resolution.”

In turn, OSINT could be performed with minimal invasiveness. Subjects - even the more dangerous among them - would have no idea that they were being examined on what they themselves had chosen to expose.

All the team had to do was report the contradiction already out in the open: adherents to an ideology obsessed with identity, constantly trying - and inevitably failing - to hide their own.

Bad Dates: How WhiteDate Exposed Its Own Users

"I would find it extremely difficult to believe that anybody signed up for that site without knowing they were signing up for a site that was white nationalist, white supremacist, fascist, neo-Nazi…" – Evan Balgord, executive director of the Canadian Anti-Hate Network (CAHN). [Source: CBC News]

This is Whitedate, the dating site “for a Europid vision" (nothing to do with the Song Contest, for those who may be confused).

The primary stated purpose of the site is “a dating platform for white people with traditional European values”. However, much of the site is structured around taking recruitment and radicalisation offline. Users are presented with access to thousands of words and hours of propaganda, most of which has nothing to do with dating. 

WhiteDate’s creative offline ‘social experiments’ include the WhiteDate car (which the site discourages detractors from dubbing the ‘Losermobile’), and printable flyers to “invite white ladies in real life who display trad potential” – before “taking [the flyer] back, walking away, and presenting the same flyer to the next one that crosses our way.” 

In the logs Martha provided, users describe their political orientations as “fascism” and “national socialism”. Their avatars included swastikas, Death’s Heads, runes and other white supremacist symbols. 

“Many users openly identified as national socialists and talked about white extinction...” – Martha Root, hacktivist. [Source: HackRead]

Martha’s logs were retrieved because WhiteDate’s own servers failed to secure user information, or restrict bot activity in any way. Simply typing in the URL ‘whitedate.net/download-all-users/’ resulted in a prompt: ‘Download Now’, allowing anybody to retrieve a full list with a click of a button. Why this feature existed is unknown. 

Two additional ethnodating platforms - AryanDate and NationalistConnect - were also caught up in the scrape, but WhiteDate was the prize scalp. The member list on OKStupid is in fact incomplete. CBC news gained access to the full picture via DDoSecrets, a non-profit whistleblower organization, under a release called “WhiteLeaks” - only available to journalists and researchers.

Here was the full 8000 profile dump, featuring:

• Profile photos
• Bios and declared beliefs
• Internal communications and admin-level data
• Information possibly linking users to other accounts
• Metadata from uploaded images, some containing GPS coordinates

Each of these data points has a certain degree of utility on its own. Dylan and his team found that with OSINT Industries, their usefulness was far greater. 

Soon, the team had identified hundreds of accounts based in Canada. As the OSINT rogue’s gallery from WhiteDate began to form, certain users’ professional lives caused some concern.

"When somebody is in the Canadian Armed Forces, they're held to a higher standard of conduct than a civilian would be… And that extends not just in what they do, let's say on base, but the views that they might express elsewhere in their lives." – Balgord of Anti-Hate

‘Blueeyedsailor’: The Reservist

The CBC team found a WhiteDate account under the username ‘blueeyedsailor’. OSINT traced the account to Brogan Hale, a naval reservist based in Ottawa. 

The ‘blueeyedsailor’ WhiteDate account was connected to an email address. This email address contained a full name: Brogan Hale. Pivoting to LinkedIn with this name brought up a profile for a Canadian naval reservist. Further proof that this profile belonged to ‘blueeyedsailor’ was a listed military certificate from a unit in Esquimalt, B.C., home to Canada’s Pacific Coast naval base. On WhiteDate, Esquimalt was listed as the user's location when the account was created in July 2023. 

OSINT Industries searches showed Instagram and Microsoft accounts linked to this same email. Here, the Instagram username was a close variant of his WhiteDate moniker; the Microsoft account’s profile picture showed Hale in uniform.

Hale’s linked X (Twitter) account followed ‘blueeyedsailor’s behavior pattern. Sharing photos that matched his Facebook profile and discussing his service in the navy, Hale repeatedly posted calls to deploy "bio weapons" against Indian people and other people of colour. The account also repeatedly posted neo-Nazi images including swastikas, and the phrase "keep Canada white."

‘Jim’: The Corporal

The CBC team also found a WhiteDate account with the username ‘Jim’. Through OSINT analysis, this account was traced to Brandon Longpré - a corporal with the Governor General's Foot Guards.

Dylan’s team had access to the email address used to create ‘Jim’s’ account. Searching this email brought up a LinkedIn account. Its owner, Brandon Longpré, listed himself as part of the Governor General's Foot Guards in Ottawa, at the rank of corporal.

As a corporal, Longpré is a junior officer responsible for leading other troops. For non-Canadians, the Governor General's Foot Guards is the Canadian military's most senior reserve infantry regiment. It trains to support operations overseas. 

‘Tristan’: The Air Force Captain

Dylan’s team had a WhiteDate account with the username "Tristan". Through OSINT, they identified its’ operator: Tristan Armstrong, a Communications Engineering officer in the Royal Canadian Air Force.

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In the ‘Tristan’ account’s bio section said, "I'm a communications engineering officer with the Royal Canadian Air Force." Thinking hopefully, this user wouldn’t be the first to exaggerate (or outright lie) on a dating profile. Sadly, Dylan’s team proved the claim was true.

The email address linked to the ‘Tristan’ account showed multiple linkages when searched. Many of these accounts had uploaded insignia for the CAF's Communications and Electronics Branch as profile pictures. Others showed Tristan Armstrong himself. 

A Facebook account, under the name Tristan Armstrong, contained photos of him in uniform as a captain in 2016. 

Armstrong began working for the CAF's Future Fighters Capability Project in 2021. This controversial program to purchase new warplanes has become, according to Dylan’s team, “a flashpoint for debates around national security.” 

The CBC team thanks the Canadian Anti-Hate Network (CAHN) for independently analyzing the WhiteDate data and corroborating identification of the naval reservist and the communications engineering officer, alongside wider context about Canadian extremism.

Bad News: The Fallout of Fascist Matchmaking

"The concern about having individuals with these sorts of beliefs in the military is that they are getting access to training, weapons, secure intelligence that is not meant to be shared with others…" – Katherine Keneally, Director of Threat Analysis and Prevention at the Institute for Strategic Dialogue. [Source: CBC News]

The implications of military personnel holding these views, or worse identifying outright as white supremacists, are grave. 

CBC News reached out to all three account holders for comment. None responded, but all have since limited - or outright deleted - their social media accounts. 

Canada’s Department of National Defence began investigations into the individuals identified by CBC News, and The Department reiterated that military personnel are expected to uphold the values of the Armed Forces. In their statement, they stressed that they had forwarded allegations to the specific units to which each man reports: the military "holds its members to the highest standards of conduct for their actions and their online behaviour is expected to reflect the CAF values and ethos."

Radicalization is a preexisting problem in Western world’s militaries, and Canada is no exception. Katherine Keneally, Director of Threat Analysis and Prevention at the Institute for Strategic Dialogue, told CBC that extremism within militaries is only getting worse - exacerbated by lack of continuous vetting or screening for the signs. “Many countries”, Keneally said, “have the ability to vet those who are entering the military”, but lack the resources or even will for “continued monitoring or a continued evaluation of those who might be radicalized during it.”

Moreover, 86 percent of the site’s over 6500 users are male; a gender ratio that, as Martha Root joked, “makes the Smurf village look like a feminist utopia.” Considering long-standing debates about women’s safety in military contexts, and difficulties in recruiting female army personnel, soldiers’ participation in WhiteDate’s overtly masculinist space is concerning. 

Bad Company: An OSINT Rogue’s Gallery

"We could have a whole rogues' gallery of people who are sort of well-known in the white supremacist space in Canada who ended up having profiles on this dating site.” – Evan Balgord, executive director of the Canadian Anti-Hate Network (CAHN).  [Source: CBC News]

The saying goes: if nine people sit down at a table with one Nazi without protest, there are 10 Nazis at the table. Several Canadian white nationalists held accounts on WhiteDate, including those previously identified by CBC News using OSINT Industries.

Shawn Beauvais-MacDonald: The Fighter

Shawn Beauvais-MacDonald is a prominent Montreal-based neo-Nazi. He appears among the users of WhiteDate. Beauvais-MacDonald’s fight club, Frontenac Active Club, recently merged with a Canada-wide white nationalist group: Second Sons Canada, hosts of ‘Bigotfest’. A recent Public Safety Canada report said that the active club movement in Canada poses a risk of "extreme violence." 

Beauvais-MacDonald has been previously known to intimidate journalists, jeopardising individual reporters’ safety and engaging in wider campaigns of media harassment. When asked for comment, he facetiously listed mainstream dating sites catering to minority religions and ethnicities.

Lane Pommer: The Coach

Lane Pommer is a martial arts coach. He’s also an organizer for the secretive, esoteric white supremacist group Exiles of the Golden Age - and a WhiteDate user. He didn’t respond to CBC’s request for comment.

OSINT Industries

Dylan described OSINT Industries as essential in this investigation. Streamlining the process of ‘identity resolution’ turned “a ‘needle in a haystack’ search into a targeted, actionable map” of open-source information. 

Before OSINT Industries, the CBC Visual Investigations Team relied on OSINT just as much; the process, however, was “manual and siloed”. The team would “either have to check platforms one by one” or “rely on older, less reliable ‘people search’ databases.” An OSINT tool that can bypass this laborious process allows the team to get on with what matters: “hold[ing] powerful institutions accountable by using publicly available (yet often hidden) data”.

Why Verification Matters

“Verification is as much about proving someone is not a suspect as it is proving they are...” – Dylan H*, Investigative Journalist and Producer, CBC Visual Investigations Team. [Source: OSINT Industries]

Dylan praises OSINT Industries’ capacity “to prove facts that were previously impossible to verify without internal access.”

In 2026, Germany’s Der Zeit published an extensive expose of the ‘WhiteNetwork’, aiming to unmask its founder. However, one of the most significant revelations from Der Zeit’s investigation was the destructive potential of an OSINT mistake.

It’s known that WhiteDate is run by a German woman identified as ‘Christiane F’ - possibly a reference to the film of the same name.

According to Der Zeit’s investigation, ‘Christiane’ was radicalized by conspiracy content, absorbing racist and antisemitic answers for her questions about the world. As her platform grew, she began to frame her message as ‘defending white identity’ - a counter to feminism and liberal values in Europe. 

German domestic intelligence (Verfassungsschutz) claimed they had “clearly identified” the operator of WhiteDate, and resolved ‘Christiane F.’s true identity.

They were wrong.

‘Christiane F’ is a pseudonym used by Liv Heide. She used the email address ‘lh@whitedate.net.’ Unfortunately, she is not the only woman in Germany with this name. 

The Verfassungsschutz had incorrectly conflated a completely unrelated woman (also named Liv Heide) with a Nazi. As a result of poor intelligence verification methods, this innocent Liv Heide lost her job and reputation. It would take her months to combat the accusations and clear her name.

“The first time I saw what the other Liv Heide was doing, I was quite shocked. Because that was not my way of thinking at all…. [I emphasize] the connection between people of different backgrounds, cultures, and religions… the power of diversity and respect…” – The innocent Liv Heide. [Source: Der Zeit]

The real Liv Heide is now open about her position on the WhiteDate’s site. Der Zeit highlighted that no meaningful apology or accountability followed. 

It’s possible this mistake arose from human error, or OSINT tools that “rely on older, less reliable ‘people search’ databases”. For Dylan and the CBC team, this case highlights “the ethical considerations of using OSINT in journalism, specifically how we use your tool to exclude innocent people who might have been caught up in a leak through no fault of their own.”

What Martha Root Did Next

"There are people openly posing with weapons on the website, people training in fighting sports were on this website.… There are death threats against me.” – Martha Root, hacktivist. [Source: HackRead]

While dressed as the Pink Power Ranger, Root’s presentation at the 39th Chaos Communications Congress also included a demonstration of how “algorithms, AI personas, and investigative thinking can expose hate, challenge its narratives, and break down its echo chambers.” 

Martha trained an AI chatbot to engage with WhiteDate’s users, extracting as much information from them as possible.

“You are on a white-only dating platform to find someone who shares your traditionalist, right-wing values and vision for the future… Due to past bad experiences, you never share contact details like Telegram until after meeting in person.

Show interest in traditional family roles and heritage, using an approachable tone with a mix of warmth and conviction. Occasionally use light humor or small talk to keep the conversation engaging and relatable.” – Prompt given to Martha Root’s AI chatbot. [Source: HackRead]

Martha Root’s AI account (username ‘lilmisethnostate’) was convincing enough to be invited to a WhiteDate meetup in northern Germany, courtesy of user ‘Anglo-Saxon’. 

Root also made her own identification of the site’s owner: Christiane Horn. Like most nazis, she wears a mask. ‘Liv Heide’ is a pseudonym. Horn lives in Kiel, Germany, with the site’s infrastructure routed through a Paris-based company, but makes no effort to hide her identity on the site these days. She lists her hobbies as “feng shui, eating brunch, and Naturgeister” - Germanic elves and gnomes. 

At the end of her 44-minute Root opened a terminal window on her MacBook. Running a Python script called lol[.]py, she inputted: “Delete whitechild.net”. A green checkmark emoji appeared – “Done!” Then: “Delete whitedeal.net” – “Done!” “Delete whitedate.net database” – “Done!” “Delete backups for whitedate.net” – “Done!”

The site’s deletion was met with enormous applause.

UPDATE

"I think they are coming back." – Martha Root, hacker. [Source: CBC News]

In the months following CBC’s expose and Martha’s deletion of the site, the ‘WhiteNetwork’ is already back - claiming to have hacking attacks, already brought WhiteDate.Net to a higher technical levels

The site’s resurgence is concerning not only because of its content, but also for the reasons that lead the Power Ranger hacker to wear a disguise. Little is known about Root other than her antifascist intent and hacking ability. The name Martha Root is not even her own, but the name of a 20th-century Baháʼí peace activist. CBC News made contact with her only after direct-messaging a three-word passphrase, which she then read aloud.

Unlike her quarries, Martha wears a mask not out of shame, but out of caution. With the activity on the site - and lack of action from authorities - this hacker has reason to be afraid.

The reuploaded WhiteDate claims defamation against anybody who mentions the site negatively, under the heading ‘Anti-White Media’. To be “banned from Facebook, Twitter, Reddit and Google” is a point of pride. The site’s founder is adamant about “starting to collect slur articles” - a practice criminologists call grievance collecting.

To Der Zeit, WhiteDate’s founder released an unrepentant statement, framing its users as hard-fighting victims:

“When we are accused of racism, extremism, and nazism simply for wishing to meet with our kind, there are no limits to anti-white hate. But we grow with our tasks, so let’s embrace the struggle and rise like a phoenix from the ashes. Liv”

The site remains ultimately insecure, as it’s still hosted on Wordpress per the statement. Considering the new addition of a ‘Baby Gallery’ - albeit “blurred… to protect the parents from repercussions by the (((system)))”  - this lack of security is concerning. Another innovation is asking for money, crypto included: “The funds will aid us in recovering from significant losses and ongoing supplementary costs, while also allowing us to develop a new pro-white project that had to be put on hold due to the lack of time and funds.”

They still have “difficulty attracting women”.