# @pinknews on Instagram

- **Type:** Video
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DPB_xAGjXG1
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/34946133-pinknews-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/postThumbnails/eceac64f71.jpg
- **Posted:** 2025-09-25T16:02:32.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** PinkNews (@pinknews) — https://gondola.cc/pinknews

## Caption

Grindr has denied claims its app went down during Charlie Kirk’s memorial service.
The company issued a statement to Out that said: “As noted on Grindr’s status page, there were no outage reports on September 21.”

Rumors began on social media the day after Charlie Kirk's memorial service after a post appeared to show a heat map of user-reported Grindr outages in Phoenix, Arizona – close to Glendale, where Kirk’s memorial was held.

The post quickly garnered thousands of likes and reposts, likely gaining traction due to Kirk’s history of anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric and the fact that Grindr is the world's largest social networking app for gay, bi, trans, and queer people.

However, astute social media users were quick to point out – along with fact-checking organisation Snopes – that Downdectector’s information is crowdsourced and any user can report an outage.

So just because outages were reported, doesn’t mean they actually happened, which Grindr has now confirmed.

#Grindr #CharlieKirk #US #politics #lgbqtia #datingapp

## Stats

- **Views:** 83,251
- **Likes:** 6,703
- **Shares:** 0
- **Comments:** 144

## Tags

us, lgbqtia, charliekirk, politics, grindr, datingapp

---
Copyright (c) Gondola