Grindr disappears from app stores in China amid Olympics crackdown

Authorities are conducting a month-long campaign to root out illegal and sensitive content during the lunar new year holiday and Winter Games

Gay dating app Grindr has disappeared from multiple app stores in China as authorities tighten control of the country's already heavily policed internet and purge online behaviour the ruling Communist party dislikes.

The country's cyber authority is conducting a month-long campaign to root out illegal and sensitive content during the lunar new year holiday and February's Winter Olympics.