Title: Gab Site Taken Down, Andrew Torba Loves The Controversy
Headings: Is This The End For Controversial Social Media Platform Gab?
Is This The End For Controversial Social Media Platform Gab?
Content: Following a sweeping series of alt-right Twitter account suspensions in November 2016, Torba boasted about the increase in Gab users. " In the last eight days alone, we’ve added 60,000 new accounts. And that [growth] does coincide with a lot of the bans that we’re seeing." In a series of screenshots detailing the back and forth exchange between Torba and Washington Post journalist Drew Harwell, Torba describes himself and his company as a scapegoat in the discourse surrounding the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting. Gab's Twitter feed is filled with tweets characterizing the platform and its CEO as a Silicon Valley martyr suffering for defending free speech whatever the cost. The anatomy of a mainstream media smear campaign and character assassination. The Washington Post is harassing my family, friends, and people from my past. I refuse to let them frame me and Gab as something we are not. pic.twitter.com/KD8n6A19AX
— Gab.com? ( @getongab) October 29, 2018
On Twitter, and in the Gab landing page statement, Torba claims that he and the company have been working with the Department of Justice and Federal Bureau of Investigation by providing Bower's user data.