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Grindr, the popular gay dating application, has sent an alert to all of its users in Egypt warning that police arrested dozens of its users over the weekend.
Derrick Patterson allegedly used the hookup app to rob more than 20 gay men between March 2020 and 2022, prosecutors alleged.
The attack, which left a Louisiana man in a coma for three days in 2020, was part of a scheme by Chance Seneca, 21, to kidnap and kill gay men, according to federal prosecutors. They said he had been inspired by Jeffrey Dahmer.
Public health officials are discovering that dating apps are the most efficient way to inform users that people they previously met on the sites may have exposed them to sexually transmitted infections.
For contact tracers of sexually transmitted infections, telephones and text messages have become ineffective. Dating apps increasingly are their best bet for informing people of their exposure risks.