Royal Canadian Air Force Major Discovered on White Supremacist Dating Site

March 9, 2026
Hazel Woodrow
Canadian Anti-Hate Network

Source: Illustration by Hazel Woodrow (WhiteDate.net; Tristan Armstrong/Facebook.com)

Warning: This article contains racist, homophobic, violent, and sexually abusive language.

WhiteDate was the dating site of choice for thousands of white supremacists. In their profiles, users shared identifiable information like their backstory, their age, and where they lived. Men—86% of all users—could select from a drop-down box options like fascism and national socialism to describe their political orientation. Some of them put swastikas, “14/88,” or other neo-Nazi symbols on their profile pictures. 

That is, until late last year, when a German antifascist security researcher calling themselves ‘Martha Root’ hacked the website, deleted it, and released all the user data. The hacker, wearing a pink power rangers uniform, turned this into a performance, live on stage, at the 39th Chaos Communication Congress, to cheers from the audience.

The Canadian Anti-Hate Network has identified over 190 Canadian users, using open source intelligence techniques to match usernames, email addresses, and personal identifying information shared in user bios. We shared our findings with the CBC, which was doing an investigation parallel to our own, and vice versa. Many of these individuals we identified hold positions of public trust, such as teachers, lawyers, health professionals, and military personnel.

Royal Canadian Air Force Major Tristan Armstrong is one of those individuals, and we can further link to him thousands of posts made on far-right forums between 2019 and 2024.

“Other than nationalizing all foreign owned businesses and real-estate within our countries, shutting out the international finance system and repudiating foreign debts and slavery to interest, and physically removing the Jew, which principles of the NSDAP [Hitler’s Nazi party] are remotely viable today?”

– Major Tristan Armstrong

In his biography on WhiteDate, Armstrong identified himself as “a communications engineering officer with the Royal Canadian Air Force.” CAHN linked the email address he used to register for WhiteDate to a YouTube channel under his real name, a military challenge coin as a profile picture, and the custom URL “elodrian.”

The Canadian Anti-Hate Network provided all the information about Major Armstrong's profiles to the Canadian Armed Forces, which immediately opened an investigation.

As “elodrian,” Armstrong posted over 2,600 times in the last six years to forums on the far-right social media platform Scored, a far-right alternative to Reddit. The vast majority of the posts Armstrong made on Scored were to the “Consume Product” community, which the January 6th Committee described as “a free-wheeling forum similar to 4chan’s /pol/ board that houses users who routinely promote racial slurs and neo-Nazi ideologies.” Since at least March of 2024, c/ConsumeProduct had a header image featuring an image of Hitler saluting, and stylized text of fascist dogwhistles.

Source: Screenshot of Internet Archive record of c/ConsumeProduct

On Scored, Armstrong voiced his support for Hitler’s Nazi Party of Germany and British fascist Oswald Mosley. “Historically it has been white nations,” Major Armstrong wrote, “which have shaken off Jewish occupation and stymied their schemes.”

In contrast to the Canadian Armed Forces ethos of “Duty with Honour,” Armstrong also posted, “we may as well learn from our Hebrew opponents: survival and subversion will ultimately triumph over honour and heroism.”  

Of the African victims of the Transatlantic Slave Trade, Armstrong wrote, “Arab slave owners imported vastly more slaves than were shipped to the Americas but they castrated all the bucks (many died in the process) and killed the gets of the does.” He continues, “They were unnecessarily destroying their own property in the moment, but in the long term, they don't have a [Black crime] problem and no one is alive to whinge about reparations.” 

For Armstrong, who is in his mid-40s, “the ideal woman is childlike.” According to Unscored, a tool which reveals content removed by Scored moderators, Armstrong posted in a separate comment: “The moment a girl has her first period, she is at her peak marriagability. Her fertility is a declining asset from that moment to menopause. If you're ever designing laws for the ethnostate, let that be one policy we cleave to. Wasting women's peak fertility window on education is a disaster for birth rates.” 

Armstrong, who spent time living in Korea as part of his RCAF deployments, also told the forum that “a fair few girls in Korea” “want” to be raped—”that way she gets sex without being a slut.” He advises the other forum users to “bail out” of that situation.

Replying to a post about disowning gay children, Armstrong advised: “Disown a LGBTQ child if they threaten the well-being of other children. i.e. the eldest son sets a bad example for all younger children, whereas if your youngest becomes gay, that's less of a problem” and “Disinherit LGBTQ children. They produce no grandchildren, so direct family resources towards live branches.” 

Armstrong also discussed his career in the military on the Scored forums, including describing his history of deployments around the world and his work with NATO. Replying to a post that has since been deleted by its author, Armstrong encouraged one user of c/ConsumeProduct to join the Canadian Armed Forces—sharing a link to information about an Information Systems Technician career and describing common army phase training as “your militia training.” Militias are illegal in Canada, but "Militia" is also a colloquial term sometimes used to describe the reserves.

In response to a New York-based poster who claimed that they were stockpiling ammunition, Armstrong asked “Do you and your friends own radios and know how to use them? Amateurs concern themselves with munitions; professionals concern themselves with comms." 

Armstrong’s Facebook indicates that in 2018, he was awarded the Special Service Medal (NATO bar) “for 180 gruelling days at NATO HQ AIRCOM.” He also shared on Facebook when he joined the Director General Major Project Delivery, a Department of National Defence capability delivery organization for major projects over $100 million, first working on the Fixed Wing SAR Replacement Project in 2019, and then the Future Fighter Capability Project starting in 2021. 

Dr. Yannick Veilleux-Lepage, Associate Professor at Royal Military College of Canada, told CAHN that there are a variety of harms associated with the presence of right-wing extremist  servicemembers, including reputational harm to the CAF as an institution, as well as specific harms to members. “Particularly in the case of a major,” says Dr. Veilleux-Lepage. “You know, what does that mean for the troops that are serving under this individual? What does that mean for the troops that might have seen something and wanted to report that if this individual is in the chain of command?”

“There needs to be a lot more transparency from the CAF about these things,” Veilleux-Lepage, who has worked extensively on extremism in the armed forces, said when asked what the CAF can do to address right-wing extremism in its members, and the associated harms. 
 

WhiteDate: “Extremist propaganda embedded within a dating app”
 

Researchers and journalists around the world have reported on WhiteDate for several years, but the final blow to the website came when hacktivist “Martha Root” deleted the site live on stage at the 39th Chaos Communication Congress in Hamburg, Germany in December 2025. Before deleting the site—along with WhiteChild (for matching white sperm and egg donors) and WhiteDeal (for white people to place and find freelance gigs)—Root used an AI chatbot to gather as much information as possible on the sites’ users, and exploited the sites’ “worst security you could imagine” to scrape the information of over 8,000 users. 

In a video released after the conference, in which she explained how and why she hacked, leaked, and shut down the sites, Root made it clear that these sites could not be compared to other dating platforms which offer connection based on the compatibility of shared culture or ethnicity: “Rather than promoting compatibility, it encourages worldview. Rather than fostering connection, it normalizes hate speech and conspiracy narratives.”

Many of the profile pictures on the site had unmistakable neo-Nazi imagery. 

The site, according to Root, “is extremist propaganda embedded within a dating app. What appears to be a niche alternative to Tinder is actually a global far-right ecosystem with thousands of users.” The fact that 86% of the userbase was male further calls into question its utility as a dating app for heterosexuals. 

For Root, “responsibly exposing or shutting down [online] networks that spread hate, conspiracy theories, and extremist coordination can be considered a form of civic responsibility” and “a practical application of democratic principles. It ensures public spaces are accountable, harmful ideologies cannot operate entirely in secret, and journalists, researchers, and society can observe what is actually happening.”

The German Embassy in Canada reports that some of the users’ profiles are being hosted at okstupid.lol, and the rest of it, including over 100GB of scraped data, has been made available to trusted journalists and researchers through the nonprofit whistleblower site DDOSecrets.

The Canadian Anti-Hate Network has determined the real identities of nearly 200 Canadian members of WhiteDate, and will be reporting on other individuals in positions of public trust in the coming weeks.