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Social Networking Platform Gab Floods With New Users

Amy Liu

Summary: After Trump supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol, Google, Apple and Amazon have successively suspended the social media platform Parler. At the same time, Gab, a social networking platform that supports Bitcoin and crypto networks, has poured in a large number of new users, adding 600,000 users in one day only yesterday. To stay online, Gab ...

After Trump supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol, Google, Apple and Amazon have successively suspended the social media platform Parler. At the same time, Gab, a social networking platform that supports Bitcoin and crypto networks, has poured in a large number of new users, adding 600,000 users in one day only yesterday. To stay online, Gab has relied on Bitcoin over payment processors, built federated servers.In an interview today with WBRE in Scranton, Pennsylvania, Gab CEO Andrew Torba explained the steps the site has taken to remain online that “We went out and bought our own servers. We own them. We cannot be banned from them.”

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