"During an interview with WBRE, a local tv station in Scranton, PA, the devout Christian CEO of Parler, Andrew Torba, answered many of the questions Americans are asking about the alternative, free speech platform.Torba explained why he founded GAB in 2016 as an alternative, free speech social media platform:
“I was living and working in Silicon Valley at the time, and I had very close relationships inside of Facebook, Twitter, and Google, by nature of my last start-up company which was a digital advertising company,” Torba explained, adding, “I got to see the evils of their business model for many years.” The GAB CEO explained that because of the many relationships he developed within these big tech companies, he had “insider sources” who warned him that “the rise of censorship was coming and was inevitable.”
Torba shared that he witnessed the manipulation of trending topics on Facebook, “which a whistleblower from inside of Facebook leaked in May of 2016,” explaining, “And that is what really pushed me over the edge.” “This whistleblower from Facebook admitted that they were actively suppressing conservative news, conservative topics, conservative sources, conservative stories from the trending topics product, which is used by billions of people every day as a source of news. They have since retired this process since the whistleblower came out,” he explained.“So, that was really the impetus behind starting this. The left was saying if you don’t like, go build your own—so that’s exactly what I did,” Torba explained."
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