In September, Twitter banned posts related to QAnon; in early October, Facebook and Instagram banned groups and accounts promoting the conspiracy belief , quickly followed by YouTube. So if you now want to exchange thoughts on groundless theories about paedophile networks that want to take over the world, where are you to go?
Andrew Torba has just the thing. Soon after Facebook’s announcement, he welcomed QAnon followers to Gab.com, the social network of which he is CEO.
Gab is part of the alt-tech (short for ‘alternative technology’) community: websites, social media platforms and internet service providers that challenge the large companies that dominate the business. With the big platforms becoming increasingly difficult intolerant of far-Right content, alt-tech’s lenient moderation policies has won it popularity among those who want to share and consume such material.
