There’s also a public Facebook group, called “Bernie Sanders Dark Tinder Con…” where people are sharing screenshots of their own Tinder campaigning efforts. Reuters reported on the cases of two women who got notices their accounts were being locked after being reported for sending too much pro-Sanders’ material to prospective matches.
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Gedrich stated that she sent messages to 60 people recently with the message “Do you feel the bern?”
Lent, who lives in Iowa, even paid for Tinder Plus so she could change her location to New Hampshire, the site of the next Democratic primary and a crucial state for the Sanders campaign.
“He’s the only candidate I see that looks out for the people, rather than whatever money’s gonna buy them”, Gedrich said.
The two women were alerted by Tinder that they had been reported multiple times for messaging matches about the Democratic Socialist’s presidential candidacy.
While a Tinder rep did not comment for the report, many modern dating apps have measures in place to make them more user-friendly – and are known to block users who are vulgar or harass others.
It was while snowed in during the recent East Coast blizzard, and bored of the messages she had been receiving on Tinder, that Gedrich chose to use the app to spread the word about the Sanders campaign instead. “Please text WORK to 82623 for me”, she wrote-and though not everyone was receptive, Gedrich said she was encouraged to find that some people wanted to know more. “Swiping right” is a colloquial reference to approving of a potential match on Tinder.
Gedrich said she got the idea during the blizzard that hit the East Coast two weekends ago.
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