THE SUN - July 12 - Social media Gab has been suspended from Twitter after tweeting anti-Semitism means "anything Jews don't like." It comes as the free speech site tweeted that their platform would not ban anti-Semitic posts. Gab describes itself as "a social network that champions free speech, individual liberty and the free flow of information online".
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Gab Suspended From Twitter
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It's Never Been Easier to Start a Social Network. Succeeding Is Another Story
CNN BUSINESS - Apr 9 - Trump is reportedly planning to launch a social media platform. Last year TikTok hit the 100m user mark in the U.S. Clubhouse, Gab and Parler emerged. Early social networks like Facebook and Twitter enjoyed a distinct advantage: They were early movers. Today, advances in tech have made it trivial to establish a website and build social functionality: (Heroku on Amazon, or Microsoft Azure with code from Github). A barebones copycat of Facebook might cost $25k, but bandwidth and storage costs could quickly spiral out of control. If you ended up with tens of millions of engaged users, costs could be a $1m/mo. An even bigger challenge is figuring out what product to offer and USPs. A lot of the first invites to Clubhouse, similar to LinkedIn, went to VCs and founders. Everyone wants to join the network where the investors are. Then there's still the question of profitability.
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Gab Has Been Hacked Again
ARS TECHNICA - Mar 10 - Beleaguered social networking site Gab was breached, marking the second time in as many weeks that hackers have gained unauthorized access to a platform that caters to users pushing hate speech and pro-Trump conspiracy theories. The compromise came to light after someone hijacked the account of Gab founder and CEO Andrew Torba and left a post criticizing him for not paying an 8 bitcoin ransom for the safe return of documents used to verify the identity of some users. The unknown hacker also accused Torba of failing to disclose the full extent of the earlier breach. Gab quickly took the site offline and removed the post, but not before it was archived here.
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Social Network Gab Was Hacked
CNET - Mar 2 - Gab, an alternative social network popular with right-wing users, was hacked and a large trove of data was stolen. The hacked data, dubbed GabLeaks, was shared by transparency group DDoSecrets. It includes 70GB of public posts, private posts, user profiles, hashed passwords, direct messages, and plaintext passwords for groups, according to DDoSecrets. The group said it's only offering the data set to journalists and researchers due to privacy concerns. A hacker was able to siphon data from Gab's site via a "SQL injection vulnerability," DDoSecrets told.
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Gab Took Itself Offline to Fix A Bitcoin Spam Problem
BUSINESS INSIDER - Feb 22 - Social network Gab said it took itself offline after discovering bitcoin spam. The company said it discovered and fixed a "security vulnerability" in its codebase. "Because of our quick action 0 bitcoin was sent to any of the addresses posted and the affected accounts have been secured," Gab said. On Friday, fewer than 20 Gab accounts were affected by a bitcoin spam issue. The company said it planned a "full audit of our logs and infrastructure." All active user sessions were ended, so every user needed to log in again.
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Following Riots, Alternative Social Apps & Private Messengers Top the App Stores
TECH CRUNCH - Jan 12 - Alternative social media apps including MeWe, CloutHub and other privacy-focused rivals to big tech, are topping the app stores following Trump's ban from mainstream social platforms like Facebook and Twitter and the more recent removal of conservative social app Parler from both the App Store and Google Play. In the days since the Parler ban, "free speech"-favoring social networks are seeing notable numbers of new downloads at a quick pace, data shows. Next-generation social network MeWe has been downloaded nearly 200k times worldwide and ranked No. 7 in the U.S. App Store's Top Overall free charts. CloutHub which claims to be a social network for "social, civic, and political networking" with a free speech angle, has seen just 31k installs since Wednesday and now ranks No. 11 on the US App Store. Two other apps that have moved into the top charts are cases of mistaken identity. An app called "Parlor" is being mistaken for the now-banned "Parler" app. From Wednesday through Sunday, "Parlor" became the No. 4 Top App Overall on iOS in the US. Meanwhile, an app called "Gab News" is also gaining ground because it's mistaken for the long since banned app "Gab," which ex-Parler users are suggesting as an alternative. "Gab News," however, is currently ranking No. 44 on the App Store's Top Free Apps Chart in the U.S. Then there is Rumble, a conservative alternative to YouTube. The app has also climbed to No. 78 on the U.S. App Store since Wednesday.
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Gab Says It's Gaining 10k New Users Every Hour
BUSINESS INSIDER - Jan 11 - Gab.com (founded in 2016), a social networking site popular among the far-right, has reported massive growth over the past few days as tech companies like the Twitter crackdown on accounts and posts inciting violence. Gab tweeted that it was receiving ~10k new users every hour. Gab.com has reported massive growth following the Capitol insurrection, the removal of high-profile conservatives from Twitter, including President Donald Trump, and the suspension of the Parler app on the Google store.
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Parler Users Call for Violence During Riots
BUSINESS INSIDER - Jan 8 - Conservative-leaning social media sites Parler and Gab erupted with talk of a revolution as mobs stormed the Capitol. As a mob smashed its way into the US Capitol, calls for an armed revolution echoed through Parler and Gab, conservative-leaning social media apps. Many chimed in with posts tagged #revolution, #fightback, #firingsquad, and #civilwar. Others spread rumors that Antifa was behind the mob. Parler sprung to life in 2018 as a no-holds-barred free speech app, an alternative social network for those too radical for Twitter or Facebook, funded in part by Rebekah Mercer. The network describes itself as "unbiased social media" and has become popular in pro-Trump circles. The app is also being used among the rioters to organize, with people posting streets to avoid and listing tools to bring for prying open doors.
by Margaux MacColl & Kevin Shalvey
See full article at Business Insider
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Gab's New CTO Is a Former Facebook Software Engineer
VICE – Nov 23 - Gab, the social network well-known as a safe haven for neo-Nazis and the far right, announced that its newest CTO is a former software engineer who spent more than 7 years at Facebook, Fosco Marotto. With 23 years of experience, he brings extensive backend infrastructure knowledge to help Gab scale.
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Facebook and Twitter Alternatives That Are More Free Speech Friendly
RECLAIMTHENET - July 15 - These alternatives have many of the features of Facebook and Twitter but don't silence their users under broad, far-reaching rules.
Gab - Free speech social network Gab launched in August 2016 as a private beta and opened up registrations to the public in May 2017. Gab states that "any user's political speech that is protected by the First Amendment of the U.S". Constitution will be allowed on the site. Gab gets 4.5M visits per month, according to SimilarWeb.
Minds - a free speech social network with a blockchain-based rewards system that was founded in February 2011, launched in alpha in 2012, and launched to the public in June 2015. According to SimilarWeb, it gets ~1.2M visits per month.
Parler - was founded in August 2018 and has already passed 1.5M users, according to its CEO John Matze, and receives 5.3M monthly visits, according to SimilarWeb. Parler's focus is on unbiased algorithms and free expression with its content moderation based on the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and Supreme Court decisions.
MeWe - a social network that focuses heavily on privacy and promises that there are no ads or spyware on the platform. It was founded in 2012 and launched publicly in 2016.
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