QAnon Mastriano Pays Extremist Site Gab For Followers

The Huffington Post reports:

Mere hours after a white supremacist massacred 11 worshippers in a Pittsburgh synagogue in October 2018, Andrew Torba, CEO and founder of the social media site Gab, gloated about all the web traffic his platform was receiving. “We have been getting 1 million hits an hour all day,” Torba wrote via Gab’s Twitter account. Gab had drawn national scrutiny immediately after the bloodshed in Pittsburgh because the killer, Robert Bowers, was a prolific and verified user of the site.

The media watchdog nonprofit Media Matters recently noticed that the campaign to elect Doug Mastriano had paid Gab $5,000 on April 28 for “campaign consulting.” HuffPost may have uncovered what Mastriano’s $5,000 is getting him: new followers on Gab. Every new account currently being created on Gab automatically follows Mastriano. HuffPost created five new accounts on Thursday. Each one automatically followed Mastriano.

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Gab Was Key To The Tree Of Life Shooting. Doug Mastriano Seems To Be Paying It For Followers.https://t.co/rJmwhMBXpb

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