Gab is a more conservative-friendly social media platform compared to its mainstream counterparts. On Saturday it claimed to be gaining new users at an astounding rate at 10,000 per hour in the wake of President Trump’s permanent suspension from Twitter.
Along with the president, several of his prominent supporters including Gen. Michael Flynn and attorney Sidney Powell were also banned from Twitter after the attack on the Capitol last week.
Trump has also been temporarily blocked from posting on Facebook and Instagram.
“The traffic just keeps growing,” said Gab CEO Andrew Torba adding that there were “even more servers on the way today.”
Torba wrote in a tweet that by Saturday the site had 18 million visits and over 500,000 new users.
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Gab, which was launched in 2016, calls itself a “social network that champions free speech, individual liberty, and the new free flow of information online.”
Conservatives’ biggest complaint with big tech companies is the censorship of their viewpoints in favor of liberals, an opinion that was strengthened by Trump’s suspension.
The president’s son Donald Trump Jr expressed his outrage in a tweet Saturday, “Free Speech Is Under Attack! Censorship is happening like NEVER before! Don’t let them silence us.”
Free Speech Is Under Attack! Censorship is happening like NEVER before! Don’t let them silence us. Sign up at https://t.co/835Eak6Ghi to stay connected!
If I get thrown off my social platforms I’ll let you know my thoughts and where I end up. pic.twitter.com/bO7wbfWWVr— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) January 9, 2021
After being banned, President Trump briefly used the official @Potus account and accused Twitter of “banning free speech” and informed his supporters that he is “negotiating with various other sites, and will have a big announcement soon, while we also look at the possibilities of building out our own platform in the near future. We will not be SILENCED!”
Twitter immediately removed the president’s posts citing its policy on banned users accessing other accounts to circumvent the suspension.
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