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🗓️ 30 October 2018

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Revisiting Brooke's conversation with Gab's former COO.

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0:00.0	Last weekend saw yet another mass shooting, this one in a synagogue in Pittsburgh.
0:07.2	The alleged shooter, Robert Bowers, made no impression on his neighbors and had no criminal record
0:13.3	beyond a traffic ticket, but he did have a social media presence on Gab. In his bio, he wrote,
0:23.3	Jews are the children of Satan.
0:24.6	And... In his last post before the shooting, Bowers wrote,
0:27.7	I can't sit by and watch my people get slaughtered.
0:30.7	Screw your optics.
0:32.1	I'm going in.
0:34.6	Gab is a platform that resembles Twitter or Reddit, but with a Pepe the Frog lookalike logo and a far-right clientele.
0:43.8	It's where you go when you're kicked off of Twitter.
0:47.3	White supremacist Richard Spencer resides there, as does Daily Stormer editor Andrew Anglin,
0:53.4	and alt-right troll, Milo Yanopoulos, among other hate mongers.
0:58.9	This week on The Daily, host Michael Barbaro spoke to New York Times technology reporter Kevin Ruse
1:05.1	about what he was seeing on the site in the wake of the murder of 11 people.
1:10.2	We have a lot of posts that are celebrating Robert Bowers. There's a hashtag hero Robert Bowers,
1:18.1	free Robert Bowers. I mean, it's just kind of the worst stuff you can imagine. Are you seeing
1:23.4	anyone on this site saying that this was wrong, abhorrent, and that's not what we stand for?
1:30.8	I'm looking around. I'm looking at what's popular on the site. I'm looking at what people are posting,
1:36.5	and I'm not seeing a lot of that, no.
1:41.4	As of Monday, the site was down, having been no-platformed by domain host GoDaddy.
1:48.7	PayPal has also withdrawn its services.
1:51.6	When you go to gab.com, now there's a flat page with a defiant message from the founders stating,
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