The Right Stuff is a self- branded dating app. The company is funded by Peter Thiel. The app has a one-star rating in the Apple store.
The app is short on women, the invite-only system makes it impossible to actually join, and answering a profile prompt resulted in contact from law enforcement.
The app asked about January 6th. A user under the name "Big Chungus" wrote a review saying that he got a call from an FBI agent the same day. Police officers showed up at the user's home, accusing them of being involved in domestic terrorism, after they created a Right Stuff profile.
One user claims that all the women on here have been replaced with middle aged white guys. The company wanted to get ahead of the problem by highlighting a group of conservative young women.
There is no evidence that the FBI or any police force has contacted Right Stuff users. There are a lot of knocks about the lack of women.
It's true that the app asks users to respond to an open-ended prompt about January 6 in order to add a bit of spice to the profile. The profile creation phase is where the question appears. It is easy to imagine people entering self-indicting information on the day of the Capitol riot.
The FBI apparently didn't heed the warnings that Parler sent them in the lead-up to the Capitol attack. There is a precedent for this.
The FBI did not respond to the questions about the app or the posted reviews. The agency directed Gizmodo to the D.C. District Attorney's office site, where there is a webpage documenting the ongoing investigation and arrests made related to the Jan.
The app is invite only to ensure a high quality community of conservative users according to the Right Stuff's spokesman.
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