After Pittsburgh shooting, Gab has been suspended by PayPal, Stripe, and hosting provider Joyent; Microsoft had terminated Azure agreement with Gab last month
historically agnostic about most of the content stored that way — have in policing against the internet's worst forms of hatred and abuse? Walindsey Booda / @lindseybieda : Gab being no platformed is easy but Twitter, Facebook, and Reddit in their refusal to properly moderate their spaces give room to the same violent white supremacists @npr : A casual scroll through Gab's message boards finds plenty of anti-Semitism, racism, Nazism and sexism running through its messages, along with conspiracy theories. https://n.pr/2OcOZIN @xeni : On GAB right before he murdered 11 Jewish people: “I can't sit by and watch my people get slaughtered. Screw your optics, I'm going in.” http://www.nytimes.com/... @nytimes : Moments before the police say he barged into a Pittsburgh synagogue and opened fire, Robert Bowers posted one last message online on Gab, a social network that has become a haven for white nationalists, neo-Nazis and other extremists. http://www.nytimes.com/... http://twitter.com/... Luke O'Brien / @lukeobrien : The above is just a glimpse into the Gab sewer. It was all okay with Torba before the massacre. Now Gab's all about how it “disavows” terrorism and violence and offers “thoughts and prayers.” Trite lines from the same old remorse-free script. http://medium.com/... http://twitter.com/... Joseph Puopolo / @jpuopolo : I found this statement from Andrew Torba particularly distasteful when he asks for people to pray for his family about losing his platform om the same day people lost their lives. #GAB pic.twitter.com/mynS94K2Oy April Glaser / @aprilaser : Yes - when I interviewed a Gab official, Torba released the interview on Periscope annotated with his running commentary after he didn't like my story. Then people tried to dox me https://twitter.com/... @nbcnews : Researchers say they are seeing an increase in anti-Semitic posts from far-right users of Instagram and Twitter, and that the services aren't doing enough about it. http://www.nbcnews.com/... Casey Newton / @caseynewton : Social platforms should spin up content moderation tiger teams to monitor for this kind of viral antisemitism and hate speech, and clip its wings. You don't need 20,000 employees to keep an eye on stuff with 5K+ retweets http://twitter.com/... Tony Romm / @tonyromm : One thing I learned yesterday: Microsoft ceased hosting Gab on Azure last month. MSFT spokesperson confirmed both sides agreed to part ways last month, added that the tech giant was “not comfortable with Gab's ability to adhere to our terms of service.” (1/2) Ali Vitali / @alivitali : This report was already scheduled to publish on @NBCNews today, before the shooting at a Pittsburgh synagogue this morning: http://www.nbcnews.com/... Allison ‘Spoopy’ Carter / @allisonlcarter : Social media is radicalizing Americans. There is a clear pattern emerging, and it is frightening. What we do and say here matters. http://twitter.com/... @swiftonsecurity : Gab appears to have deleted the tweet complaining about me blocking them after they sent white nationalists after me for a Bob Ross meme about Donald Trump getting temporarily blocked from Twitter Justin Ling / @justin_ling : Gab, the far-right Twitter knock-off used by the Tree of Life shooter, releases statement absolving itself from responsibility. Multiple of the top posts on the website right now are either alleging a false flag or are just out-and-out antisemitic. http://medium.com/... http://twitter.com/... Jacob Kornbluh / @jacobkornbluh : Researcher: Amount of anti-Semitic material posted to Instagram and tied to Soros was possibly the worst sample of hate speech he had seen on the popular photo-sharing app http://www.nbcnews.com/... Brianna Sacks / @bri_sacks : Gab says shortly after the attack, it was alerted to a user profile that matched the suspect's name. It backed up all user data, suspended the account, and contacted authorities. Gab noted that he also had other social media profiles. http://medium.com/... http://twitter.com/... See also Mediagazer