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Thursday, March 28, 2024

GETTR & Gab Compete for Users Fleeing Facebook & Twitter as Truth Social Nears

'If I go on there, and they ban me for being me, well what is that?...'

As conservatives and anti-woke centrists leave Facebook and Twitter, GETTR and Gab are battling for their presence.

Gab CEO Andrew Torba has made explicit appeals to the right-wing voices that Big Tech companies have silenced, while GETTR banned a prominent right-wing commentator.

Torba stated that “dissident political thinkers” and “dissident members of Congress” are free to speak on the platform, The Gateway Pundit reported.

“You’ll find dissident media outlets who challenge the mainstream media establishment along with normal everyday people just like you who are sick and tired of being gaslit and demonized by the Oligarchs on Big Tech platforms,” Torba said.

Torba said that Gab does not remove posts or ban content unless it contains criminal, sexual, or violent content. He believes that the zero-censorship approach will lead to Gab’s dominance.

“The new Congress is set to be the Gab Congress and no one even realizes it yet, but they will soon,” Torba said.

Meanwhile, GETTR alienated many conservatives by banning Nick Fuentes, a controversial America First commentator, on Dec. 20 without telling him what post violated the website’s terms of service.

With his conservative and nationalist political views, Fuentes attracts an obscure and niche internet following that apparently does not fit GETTR’s mainstream approach.

After GETTR banned Fuentes, Gab advertised his account.

In recent weeks, GETTR has attacted centrist figures like podcaster Joe Rogan and former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, D-Hawaii.

Former Trump advisor Jason Miller launched GETTR last July as a free-speech alternative to Facebook and Twitter. He promised an environment without political censorship.

“As long as they’re abiding by our terms of service, then everybody’s going to be treated the same,” Miller said in an interview on talkRadioTV. “Come on and talk about your political beliefs and no one will send you to digital jail.”

Elijah Schaffer, who hosts Slightly Offensive on BlazeTV, said he reached out to GETTR about the decision to ban Fuentes but would not “respond to my inquiry of what in their TOS [Terms of Service] he violated or what post violated it.”

Fuentes commented on the ban.

“If I go on there, and they ban me for being me, well what is that?,” Fuentes asked.

“It’s arbitrary, it’s discretionary, and when they ban groyper, that takes it to a different level,” he said in reference to Fuentes’s fans, who call themselves “groypers,” a reference to an obese right-wing frog.

Arizona State Sen. Wendy Rogers, a Republican who has led election integrity efforts, said that GETTR must “restore Nick Fuentes or they are are no better than Twitter.”

“Free speech is free speech,” she said on Telegram.

“If people are mad that Twitter banned MTG [Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene] but not mad that GETTR banned Fuentes then we have a problem,” she added in another post.
GETTR has also made some hiring decisions that frighten conservatives.
The company’s Global Communications Director, Ebony Bowden, is a Never-Trumper who supported former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and former President Barack Obama, Daily Veracity reported.
She tweeted in May 2015 that she was “buying all of the merchandise” from Clinton’s campaign store.

“Trump’s behavior at the G7 is genuinely frightening.” Bowden tweeted in June 2018. “We’ve long laughed at him but reading this coverage I can’t help but feel like the United States is careening toward disaster.”

The conflict between Gab and GETTR may not last long, as former Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif., has resigned from Congress to run former President Donald Trump‘s social media company, Truth Social.

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