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This is a story about a white supremacist dating network, bad IT decisions, AI bots, and why I ended up talking about all of this while dressed as a pink Power Ranger. The platforms called themselves “ethnic dating.” In reality, they functioned as hubs for conspiracy theories, hate speech, and far-right ideology — wrapped in profile pictures and flirt messages. I gave a talk about this at the Chaos Communication Congress. Two weeks later, the sites are still offline. Make of that what you will. Public data and messages sent to my AI personas were published on okstupid.lol. More sensitive material was shared with journalists and researchers via DDoSecrets.

By: Martha Root

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