A Daily Beast Exclusive
Two
payment processors were told over the summer that neo-Nazis used the
site to intimidate critics. The companies kept working with the site
until 11 people were murdered.
By Kelly Weill
Months before they cut ties with the extremist-friendly social-media
site Gab, tech companies were warned about incitement to violence on the
website, according to emails reviewed by The Daily Beast.
The
payment processors Stripe and PayPal stopped working with Gab on
Saturday after it was revealed that a man who allegedly murdered 11
people at a Pittsburgh synagogue had been an active Gab user
who authored violently anti-Semitic posts and shortly before the
killing spree, appeared to announce his intentions to his Gab followers.
But over the summer Stripe and PayPal received warnings about the
site’s role in online hate.
The Twitter user @DeplatformHate has
been documenting the far right’s partnerships with Silicon Valley for
nearly a year and repeatedly tweeted about Stripe’s ties to Gab in
August. After Stripe’s general counsel reached out on August 17,
Deplatform Hate sent him and Stripe’s CEO a long email on August 24,
documenting the issue.
“Gab is a massive hive mind of neo-Nazis
that have actively doxed journalists families that work on stories of
neonazi violence,” Deplatform Hate wrote in an August 24 email shared
with The Daily Beast, in which he cited white supremacists who used Gab
to publish journalists’ personal information, including home addresses.
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