Analyzing a terrorist's social media manifesto: the Pittsburgh synagogue shooter's posts on Gab

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Bowers was soon identified online as having an account on the Gab social media network. Launched in the late summer of 2016, Gab was developed specifically as an alternative to Twitter and Facebook where users could freely traffic in the basest kinds of hate speech. Gab was adopted quickly by followers of the “alt-right” — a rebranding of traditional white nationalism by a new generation of believers that emerged online around 2014 and came to prominence by attaching itself to Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign.
While Bowers’ Gab account was deactivated by the company, a screen capture of it suggests he was extremely active on the network. In the 19 days before Bowers carried out his act of mass murder, he posted or reposted memes and comments at least 68 times. He was clearly obsessed with Jews. In the small window into his account currently available, it’s evident he engaged with numerous antisemitic conspiracy theories that have long been in circulation among neo-Nazis and white nationalists.

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https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2018/10/28/analyzing-terrorists-social-media-manifesto-pittsburgh-synagogue-shooters-posts-gab