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(Jewish Group) Jake Tapper Hit With Hitler Memes After Signing Up for the Alt-Right's Gab Social [View all]
Jake Tapper Hit With Hitler Memes After Signing Up for the Alt-Right's Gab Social: 'It Is a Cesspool of Hate' (Video)It has the "lowest standards" of any social media platforms, but even Gab moderates its content," CNN anchor Jake Tapper noted in a lengthy report on far-right social sites Monday.
Tapper signed up for Gab Social after Parler announced it would sell itself to Ye, the rapper formerly known as Kanye West. That sale, Tapper said, would make Ye "the latest billionaire to buy his way into the 'Social Media Legion of Doom,'" alongside former President Donald Trump, who owns Truth Social, and Elon Musk, who is in the process of buying Twitter.
Ye moved to purchase the site, which bills itself as "the world's pioneering uncancelable free speech platform," after he was locked out of Twitter and Instagram following a number of antisemitic posts.
After detailing Parler's history and its use as an organizing tool by many of the insurgents who stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, Tapper said that while site now markets itself as "the premier global free speech platform," Gab has about 10 times more users.
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