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Bumble Deactivates, Reactivates Politics Filter After Women Say They Forwarded Rioters’ Pics to FBI

Women had tweeted that they were in touch with the FBI regarding photos and videos that “MAGA bros” had sent them.

Bumble has reactivated its politics filter after initially switching it off in response to reports of women using it to trick men involved in the Jan. 6 Capitol riot into sending them incriminating evidence. The women tweeted that they had forwarded the images and footage to the FBI, Business Insider reports. One woman wrote of a friend, “She’s matching with the MAGA bros and they’re bragging and sending her pics and videos of them in the Capitol. She’s sending them to the FBI.” Bumble cut the ideological sorting feature “to prevent misuse,” the company said in a tweet before the tool was reinstated late Friday. The dating app maker also said that it had deleted the profiles of those who were “confirmed as participants in the attack of the US Capitol.”