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'''Gab''' is an English-language [[social media]] website
Gab attracted migration of users banned from other social networks, including members of the [[far right]].<ref name=":2">{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/nov/17/gab-alt-right-social-media-twitter|title=Gab: alt-right's social media alternative attracts users banned from Twitter|last=Wilson|first=Jason|date=November 17, 2016|newspaper=The Guardian|language=en-GB|issn=0261-3077|access-date=December 3, 2016}}</ref> A majority of Gab's users were white, a majority were male, and a majority were conservative.<ref name=insidetheright>{{cite arxiv|last=Lima|first=Lucas|last2=Reis|first2=Julio C. S.|last3=Melo|first3=Philipe |last4=Murai|first4=Fabricio |last5=Araújo|first5=Leandro|last6=Vikatos|first6=Pantelis|last7=Benevenuto|first7=Fabrício|date=2018-07-10| title=Inside the Right-Leaning Echo Chambers: Characterizing Gab, an Unmoderated Social System|eprint=1807.03688|class=cs.SI|quote=We also show that the majority of Gab users are conservative, male, and Caucasian.}}</ref> Gab reported 465,000 users in April 2018.<ref name=numbers/> The site's most followed users included prominent far-right individuals such as [[Richard B. Spencer]], [[Mike Cernovich]], and [[Alex Jones]].<ref name=insidetheright/><ref name=whatisgab>{{Cite book|last=Zannettou|first=Savvas|last2=Bradlyn|first2=Barry|last3=De Cristofaro|first3=Emiliano|last4=Kwak|first4=Haewoon|last5=Sirivianos|first5=Michael|last6=Stringhini|first6=Gianluca|last7=Blackburn|first7=Jeremy|date=2018-03-13|title=What is Gab? A Bastion of Free Speech or an Alt-Right Echo Chamber?|pages=1007–1014|arxiv=1802.05287|doi=10.1145/3184558.3191531|chapter=What is Gab|isbn=9781450356404}}</ref> The site recognized far-right conspiracy theorist websites ''[[Breitbart News]]'' and ''[[InfoWars]]'' as its competitors.<ref name="wapo20181031"/>
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