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Public Agency – Racist Phrases, Insults to Women and Feminists, Insults to LGBT, Slavery Releases in Brazil. These are some of the topics freely discussed in Portuguese Gab, "a social network that promotes freedom of expression, individual freedoms and the free flow of information," according to the official website. "Everyone is welcome," he says.
Established in the United States in August 2016, on the eve of the trial, he elected Donald Trump in the United States, The White House, Gab, is now also the Brazilian territory. In an unpublished study, Public reveals that Brazil has become the second largest nationality of the network after the boom of new profiles in August this year – a wave of new users that brought to Gab a series of comments that could be banned in from other networks.
The action was led by Gab's founder, American Andrew Torba, who approached supporters of then-candidate Jair Bolsonaro to expand his market. The platform itself has even invited President-elect Jair Bolsonaro (PSL) to create his profile – his son Flávio Bolsonaro already has one.
Gab works in the same way as Twitter. Users can publish text up to 300 characters, photos, links and videos. The home page opens with the most popular posts, but each profile can create its own feed. The big difference lies in the conditions of use. While on Twitter, no abusive content, hate propaganda or violence is allowed, Gab will exclude only publications with child badgraphy and those explicitly inciting violence. "Gab is a network that does not aim at moderation, in fact, its moderation is very weak, it says something that it does not allow and the rest is released," says Fabrício Benevenuto, a researcher at the University. Federal Ministry of Minas Gerais (UFMG).
While the platform claims to be an advocate of total freedom of opinion, US authorities and
Last August, Brazilian Twitter was inundated with green frogs – formerly the Gab logo, an allusion to "Pepe The Frog". design adopted by superstars during the Trump – campaign, accompanied by the hashtag #MeSegueNoGab. It was an invitation to Brazilians to migrate from other networks and create Gab accounts.
The hashtag was published 25,000 times between Aug. 21 and 23, according to a report by Sysomos, a social media badytics firm (19659002) The strategy has paid off: in the first 30 days of the election campaign in Brazil, (from August 20 to September 17), the website address gab.ai was the 16th most shared domain on the Brazilian Twitter
According to a report by the US Securities and Exchange Commission September 10 Brazil became the second most important nationality in the network: 144,000 Brazilians had accounts in Gab, behind the United States, with 275,600 profiles. Until June, Brazilians were not among the five largest nationalities of the platform.
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