Senate candidate Graham Platner has not deactivated his account on a private messaging app associated with casual sex and anonymous encounters — despite facing mounting questions over infidelity and the platform’s ties to sexual exploitation. Platner, the presumptive Democratic nominee in Maine’s 2026 Senate race, has an active profile on Kik, an anonymous chatting platform notorious for lax identification methods that have enabled the proliferation of child sexual abuse material. The profile, reviewed by Fox News Digital, contains a sexually suggestive picture of Platner showing the candidate’s naked torso with a towel draped around his waist.It is unclear when the image was taken, but Platner created the account in 2016. Platner’s presence on Kik was first reported by The Wall Street Journal, which reported that he sent sexually explicit messages to multiple women while married to his wife Amy Gertner, who wedded Platner in 2023.
According to the outlet, Platner’s wife first discovered the adulterous messages in the spring of 2025 and later divulged them to a since-departed campaign official.Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner is under fire after his wife Amy Gertner did not deny the allegations of infidelity in her marriage.(Joe Raedle/Getty Images)CORY BOOKER ADMITS GRAHAM PLATNER 'HAS QUESTIONS TO ANSWER' FOLLOWING LATEST SCANDALMultiple child safety groups have criticized Kik due to its anonymous structure and public group chats that allow strangers to contact each other with little effort.Users only need an email address to create an account, and there is no enforceable age-verification mechanism. Roughly 70% of the platform’s users are estimated to be between 13 and 24 years old, according to multiple industry reports.The National Center on Sexual Exploitation designated Kik as a "predator’s paradise" in 2023 for being rampant with "predatory behavior and child sexual exploitation." The watchdog also placed the platform on its "...