Gab social media network, related to the shooting of the Pittsburgh synagogue, back online

COLLEGE PARK, Md. – Gab social media platform, where the suspect in the Pittsburgh synagogue massacre Popular anti-Semitic messages are back online about a week after domain registrar GoDaddy and other Internet services dropped out of the site.

Gab returned Sunday after a Seattle-based company, Epik, agreed to register the site's domain.

Gab suspended the account of Robert Gregory Bowers, accused of killing 11 people in a Pittsburgh synagogue last month, shortly after the attack. On his Twitter account, Gab on Sunday posted a message that "it will not be defined by the actions of an individual".

Gab has been a haven for racists and anti-Semites who have been banned from Twitter for hateful and harassing behavior. Gab's founder and CEO, Andrew Torba, described his site as a bastion of freedom of expression.

The platform also accused the media of misinterpreting Gab. "If you joined Gab today and found out that the media did not foresee it, you may have to ask yourself what else they are lying about," the website said on Monday. Twitter.

Gab launched in 2016 an alternative to major social media networks, such as Twitter and Facebook, which the company says in a document filed by the SEC "continues to clamp down on" objectionable content "" and "censor conservative views". In the same case with the SEC, Gab highlights users of "conservative, libertarian, nationalist and populist" sites, such as Breitbart, Infowars and Drudge Report, as a target market.

Gab is offline after shooting October 27 at the Tree of Life synagogue, which has killed 11 people and wounded six others. The intense spotlight on the site also seems to have hindered its fundraising efforts – the site lost more than three dozen small investors in the days immediately following the shooting. In 2017, the company has raised more than one million dollars as part of a separate crowdfunding campaign.