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Fake Edward Snowden Joins Tinder

NPR
Published July 10, 2014 at 7:11 AM EDT

The popular dating app Tinder has a new user: Edward Snowden. Actually, just the username Lonely Ed with the profile picture of the NSA leaker looking for love from Moscow. It was the brainchild of Ross Cohen, a writer and director in Los Angeles.

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