Gab is the brainchild of Andrew Torba, an adtech startup founder who now lives in Austin, Tx.
After a stint in Silicon Valley, He found the politically progressive atmosphere of the Bay Area to be stifling, making him uncomfortable about expressing his views, and he has now taken on the mission of fixing what he sees as the censorship that plagues online spaces.
The tipping point that pushed him to leave the tech bubble and start Gab came earlier this year, when he read that several Facebook employees had come forward to divulge that the network’s trending topics section was actively suppressing conservative news. “I knew I had to take action,” Torba says.
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