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Gab, a more conservative alternative social media platform to Twitter, said on Saturday that it is gaining 10,000 users per hour after Twitter permanently suspended President Trump’s account.
Trump was also barred from posting to Facebook and Instagram – at least until the end of his term.
“Traffic continues to grow, even more servers on the way today,” wrote Gab CEO Andrew Torba on the website on Saturday.
Trump and several prominent supporters such as General Michael Flynn and attorney Sidney Powell were also banned from Twitter after the deadly riot at the United States Capitol on Wednesday.
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Torba tweeted on Saturday night that the site had 18 million visits on Saturday and 500,000 new users.
Gab, which was launched a few years ago, calls itself a “social network that defends freedom of expression, individual freedom and the new free flow of information online”.
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Conservatives have long complained that big tech companies censor their views in favor of liberals, a sentiment that has been accelerated by Trump’s suspension.
“Freedom of speech is under attack! Censorship is happening like NEVER before! Don’t let them silence us,” tweeted Donald Trump Jr on Saturday.
Google and Apple also suspended Parler from their app stores on Saturday.
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Following his ban, Trump briefly used the official @Potus account to accuse Twitter of “banning free speech” and announced that he is “negotiating with several other sites, and will have a big announcement soon, while we also look at the possibilities for construction our own platform in the near future. We will not be silenced! “
Twitter quickly removed tweets from the @Potus account, citing its policy about banned users who try to circumvent it through other accounts.