It has the “lowest standards” of any social media platform, but even Gab moderates its content,” CNN anchor Jake Tapper noted in a Long reports on right-wing social sites monday.
Tapper signed up for Gab Social when the parlor announced that it would sell itself to Ye, the rapper formerly known as Kanye West. Tapper said the sale, along with former President Donald Trump, who owns Truth Social, and Elon Musk, who is in the process of buying, is the “latest billionaire” to buy his way into the “social media legion of Doom”. “Will make it. Twitter.
You went on to buy the site, which bills itself as “the world’s leading unrestricted free speech platform,” after it was pulled out of Twitter and Instagram after several anti-Semitic posts.
After detailing the history of the parlor and its use as an organizing tool by several rebels who attacked the Capitol on January 6, 2021, Tapper stated that the site is now marketing itself as “the leading global free speech platform”. Of course, Gab has almost 10 times more users.
So he decided to take a look and opened an account on Monday.
“I clicked ‘Explore’, which took me to the popular post in Gab,” he said. “I came in with an open mind, and immediately Gab struck me with this post: ‘We are in a time of war, but this is a quiet war waged by a Jew. The meme contained a picture of Adolf Hitler.
“And there was a lot more where it came from,” said Tapper, who is Jewish. “The n-word is huge on gab. It’s a bundle of hate.”
But while that doesn’t stop people from posting hate, Gab moderates content, as noted by Parlor and Truth Social, Tapper. Gab “just doesn’t allow any speech. It takes precautions,” he said.
“You cannot broadcast unsolicited advertising or promotional material on Gab,” he said. “You can’t impersonate someone else on Gab. You can’t do anything that would annoy Gab himself on Gab.
It removed a post targeting Jews by the suspect who killed 11 people at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh in 2018. He was posting “right up until the very moment he got out of his car and killed innocent Jews,” Tapper said.
Tapper concluded with clips from a congressional hearing that suggested elected officials are out of touch with the handling of social media, and suggested there was little hope that legislation could eliminate hate speech online. Is.
And while Tapper said he traditionally supports the concept that bad speech is countered with “more speech” and “not with censorship,” he did not discuss how to address racist posts on social media. It was labeled a dilemma.
Tapper said, “The more ‘speech’ I saw on Gab this afternoon was more speech praising Nazis and more speech in Holocaust denial and more hateful racist post-sharing speech that I’ve never seen in a single life in my life. Never seen the location.”
“I saw less of it, but still a lot more at the parlor today,” he said. “It is high time we recognize that the hate on many of these far-flung sites is not simply the unfortunate result of a belief in freedom of expression. Hate is the whole point.”
Watch the full segment in the video above.
