Gab
American alt-tech social media service
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| September 2023 | The Wall Street Journal reports that Gab was targeted by a Chinese government influence operation called Spamouflage |
| 2022 | Gab reported over 5 million registered users as of the summer of the year. |
| August 2022 | Torba made a derogatory comment about Jewish people, stating 'We're not bending the knee to the 2 percent anymore', and blocked users with Israeli IP addresses from Gab. |
| August 2022 | Adam Bies was charged with making death threats against FBI agents on Gab after the Mar-a-Lago search. Torba provided Bies' data to the FBI, causing controversy among Gab users who accused him of betraying the platform's free speech principles. |
| August 2022 | Mastriano released a statement denouncing antisemitism, distanced himself from Torba, and deleted his Gab account after widespread criticism from Jewish organizations and political representatives. |
| July 2022 | Doug Mastriano paid Gab $5,000, allegedly for campaign consulting, which resulted in automatic following of his account for new Gab users. Torba endorsed Mastriano's gubernatorial campaign. |
| July 2022 | Gab launched GabPay as an alternative to PayPal, positioning it as part of a larger project to build a Christian parallel economy. |
| June 2022 | A Stanford Internet Observatory report found that deplatforming of users following January 6, 2021, led to a surge of income that helped keep Gab operational. |
| June 2022 | Stanford Internet Observatory characterizes Gab as a platform catering to white Christian nationalist demographics |
| June 2022 | Gab's CEO Andrew Torba stated to CNN that the platform permits all lawful political speech protected by the First Amendment, including discussions about political topics like treason, while taking action against direct and imminent threats of violence. |
| May 15 2022 | Following the Buffalo shooting, Torba told his followers that procreation is the solution to white replacement conspiracy theories. |
| April 2022 | Torba offered Elon Musk a board seat and equity in Gab in exchange for selling Twitter shares and investing $2 billion, also proposing a collaboration to prevent potential ISP-level censorship. |
| March 2022 | RT launched a channel on Gab TV, with Torba publicly supporting RT and claiming censorship against conservative voices. |
| March 14 2022 | Torba shared a baseless QAnon conspiracy theory claiming that Trump's pronunciation of 'China' was a secret signal suggesting Ukraine developed COVID-19. |
| January 24 2022 | Andrew Torba announced Gab would sponsor the America First Political Action Conference (AFPAC) run by white nationalist commentator Nick Fuentes, causing significant backlash from Gab users and donors. |
| 2021 | Gab claimed to have 15 million unique monthly visitors, though an analysis by The Intercept suggested the active user base was closer to 100,000. |
| 2021 | Gab suffered a significant data breach known as 'GabLeaks'. |
| November 8 2021 | Andrew Torba responded to The Washington Post about Gab's Brazilian user base, expressing support for Jair Bolsonaro and referencing Jesus Christ. |
| October 2021 | The Washington Post described Gab's content moderation approach as 'laissez-faire'. |
| October 2021 | LGBTQ Nation's John Gallagher reported that Gab was hosting numerous COVID-19 misinformation posts, including calls to arrest Dr. Anthony Fauci and false claims about the 2020 presidential election. |
| October 19 2021 | Torba posted a series of tweets characterized as an 'antisemitic tirade' promoting antisemitic canards and calling for a 'parallel Christian society'. |
| October 13 2021 | Torba used Gab's Twitter account to praise E. Michael Jones, an antisemitic Catholic writer, calling him a 'brilliant and faithful Christian man'. |
| September 2021 | The Federal Office of Justice in Bonn, Germany imposed a €30,000 fine on Gab for not naming a contact person for content deletion under the Network Enforcement Act. |
| September 22 2021 | Torba announced plans to upgrade Gab's infrastructure to 'preserve a parallel Christian society on the internet' and develop a 'free market' alternative to mainstream platforms. |
| September 1 2021 | Gab's CEO Andrew Torba refused to cooperate with the investigation, claiming no retention of records and challenging the committee's request for user communications. |
| August 2021 | Media Matters for America's Alex Kaplan noted that Torba was attempting to use Gab to undermine coronavirus vaccination efforts. |
| August 27 2021 | The U.S. House of Representatives select committee investigating the Capitol storming demanded records from Gab, going back to spring 2020. |
| July 2021 | Andrew Torba made a Gab post claiming he was receiving messages from U.S. military members about potential court-martial for refusing COVID-19 vaccine. The post received 10,000 likes and shares, spreading vaccine-related misinformation. |
| June 2021 | In an interview with TruNews, Torba claimed Kushner wanted Gab to remove antisemitic content before Trump could join, which Torba refused to do. |
| March 2021 | Texas Governor Greg Abbott publicly condemns Gab as an anti-Semitic platform |
| March 2021 | Forbes reported that Jared Kushner's representatives requested equity in Gab in exchange for Trump joining the platform, which Torba declined. |
| March 2021 | The Republican Party of Texas voted to delete their Gab account. |
| February 2021 | Gab announced they would only respond to press inquiries from 'Christian media companies', describing other publications as 'pagan propagandists'. |
| February 2021 | Multiple media outlets falsely reported that former-President Donald Trump had joined Gab under the handle @realdonaldtrump, which was actually a mirror archive run by Gab's founder Andrew Torba. |
| February 9 2021 | RT, a Russian government-owned media outlet, created an account on Gab just before Trump's second impeachment trial, posting articles including one criticizing The Lincoln Project. |
| January 2021 | CNN reported on Gab's lax moderation policy, highlighting the platform's prevalence of QAnon conspiracy theories, misinformation, anti-Semitic commentary, and racist posts. |
| January 24 2021 | The Republican Party of Texas made a post on Twitter asking their followers to join Gab. |
| January 19 2021 | Rachel E. Greenspan from Business Insider noted Gab tweeted a direct quote from a Q post, which was later deleted. The tweet also included a reference to Jesus and Pepe the Frog. |
| January 14 2021 | Gab's Twitter account posted tweets about Jared Kushner that were noted to invoke antisemitic tropes about Jewish global influence. |
| January 14 2021 | Gab claimed to have gained 2.3 million new users in the past week, with its website experiencing an 800% increase in traffic. |
| January 13 2021 | The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) called for a federal investigation into Gab and CEO Andrew Torba regarding their potential role in the Capitol storming. |
| January 12 2021 | ABC News reported that conservative-leaning social networks like Gab helped create echo chambers for extremist and violent views, contributing to the Capitol storming. |
| January 11 2021 | After Parler was pulled offline by Amazon Web Services, former Parler users began migrating to Gab. |
| January 6 2021 | During the storming of the United States Capitol, Gab users recorded entering Congressional offices, including Nancy Pelosi's office, and posted about searching for then-Vice President Mike Pence. |
| January 6 2021 | Gab was among the platforms used to plan the United States Capitol attack. |
| December 2020 | Engineering & Technology reported potential 'huge fines' for Gab under a proposed UK online safety bill. |
| December 2020 | Gab publicly welcomed QAnon across its platforms. |
| November 2020 | Fosco Marotto, a former Facebook software engineer, joined Gab as CTO. |
| November 2020 | Gab claimed to experience record user growth during the U.S. presidential election. |
| November 11 2020 | Torba claimed Gab's growth was due to word of mouth, not celebrity endorsements or paid advertising, during the 2020 presidential election. |
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