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ABC News Turn on desktop notifications for breaking stories about interest? OffOn Robert Chapman was arrested after boasting about the Jan. 6 riot on Bumble. • 11 min read US Capitol riots: Tracking the insurrection On Jan. 6, rioters coming from a pro-Trump rally broke into the U.S. Capitol, resulting in deaths, injuries, arrests and vandalism.Samuel Corum/Getty Images, FILE All's fair in love and war -- and apparently doubly so if you mix them. Robert Chapman, of Carmel, New York, was arrested April 22 after he boasted on the dating app Bumble that he was part of the group to "storm the ...

Origin After a crowd of supporters of U.S. President Donald Trump stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, Snopes received reports that some users of online dating applications were using the sites not to make romantic connections but to out people who participated in the deadly insurrection. “Women have been contacting the FBI due to men bragging about storming the Capitol on their tinder profiles,” one person wrote on Twitter. The claims were true. Users of Tinder, Bumble, and other dating apps scanned the apps for profiles of people who resembled rioters in widely publicized photos of...

Dating apps are using images from the siege to ban rioters’ accounts Drew Harwell, Lisa Bonos, Craig Timberg © Provided by The Washington Post Tinder, Bumble and other dating apps are using images captured from inside the Capitol siege and other evidence to identify and ban rioters’ accounts, causing immediate consequences for those who participated as police move toward making hundreds of arrests. Women and men have in some cases also turned the dating apps into hunting grounds, striking up conversations with rioters, gathering potentially incriminating photos or c...

Bumble, Tinder and others are freezing out rioters with help from law enforcement -- and, in some cases, their own photos. Others on the apps have taken matters into their own hands by striking up conversations with potential rioters, then relaying their information to the FBI.