Andrew’s right to rule out becoming CEO of Twitter, as he would run it into the ground even faster than Elon Musk has. Torba is if anything even more ideologically committed to giving anti-Semites a safe space and even privileging their content. The posts that trend on Gab are awful enough. The comments sections are absolutely sordid.
I’ll give Andrew credit for this: he’s at least self-aware enough to know that he’s narrow-casting to a certain segment of poster. He always talks about building up parallel traditionalist Christian society, and things of that nature. Yes, that’s what he’s doing, in the online space, and as far as I know he’s never pretended to be doing anything else.
Elon Musk on the other hand seemed totally confused about what he was trying to accomplish from the start.
Maybe Twitter is a Tower of Babel that was always destined to fall, and Musk was just an accelerant. Perhaps humanity is too diverse to be housed in one platform. Or maybe it will carry on. Its story isn’t over yet.
If Twitter does implode, Gab will likely pick up some of that traffic, but so will all the other Twitter lookalikes. Anyone who flocks to Gab will have to have a pretty strong stomach for anti-Semitism, racism, and other assorted fever-swamp conspiracies and bullshit.
