Title: What is Gab? After Amazon Action on Parler, Site Popular With Far-Right Reports Growth
Headings: What is Gab? After Amazon Action on Parler, Site Popular With Far-Right Reports Growth
What is Gab? After Amazon Action on Parler, Site Popular With Far-Right Reports Growth
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Content: In response, Matze warned users Parler will go offline for up to a week and said it would be "rebuild from scratch." "This was a coordinated attack by the tech giants to kill competition in the market place," Matze wrote on Parler. " We were too successful too fast." Newsweek Newsletter sign-up >
In response, a number of popular uses on Parler—a haven for conservatives and far-right figureheads banned from other platforms—are urging people to now join them on an equally controversial social media platform Gab. What is Gab? Gab, which was founded in 2016, prides itself on being a "free speech" platform with almost no censorship rules, and has a similar layout and function to Twitter. The site describes itself as a "social network for creators who believe in free speech, individual liberty, and the free flow of information online." Newsweek subscription offers >
It is known to be used by neo-Nazis and other white supremacists unable to post their hate speech on other platforms. In 2018, Gab temporarily shut down after after its hosting provider GoDaddy dropped when posts linked to the alleged Tree of Life Synagogue gunman, who killed killing 11 people in Pittsburgh, appeared on the platform. As well as sharing a number of anti-Semitic and racist comments and images, Robert Bowers allegedly wrote "Screw your optics, I'm going in" during a post attacking the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society, before carrying out the attack.