After Twitter banned President Trump, and the hosting company Amazon Web Services suspended conservative network Parler, another social media site found its name in the news: Gab.
The site, which looks like a mash-up of Twitter and Facebook, calls itself “the free speech social network” and has welcomed extremist right-wing figures and believers of QAnon, the loose collection of conspiracy theories that touch on everything from politics to covid-19. Gab prides itself on allowing users to post whatever they would like, though the platform notes one of its jobs is to “take action to prevent and remove any illegal activity in our community.”
