“Inside Gab.AI’s Plan to Replace Democracy With A White-Christian Digital Theocracy”, ForPol India, November 11, 2025
“Over the last seven decades humankind has dismantled Jim Crow laws, desegregated schools, expanded voting rights and gradually begun to recognise the equality of women, LGBTQ+ people and ethnic minorities. Those victories were earned through marches, court battles and sometimes the ultimate sacrifice. Today a new breed of online extremist seeks to roll back that progress. They cloak their agenda in talk of “free speech” and “Christian values,” but the world they envision is one where non‑white, non‑Christian voices are silenced and entire communities are expelled. At the heart of this crusade stands Gab AI, an alt‑tech platform created by Andrew Torba that now functions as a megaphone for hate.
When you scroll through social media, you expect the usual mixture of news, memes and friendly chatter. Instead, a growing number of users find their feeds invaded by posts insisting that accusations of homophobia, xenophobia and racism are irrelevant because “it’s TRUE”[1] and declaring that society collapsed after segregation ended[2]. These proclamations aren’t isolated rants from anonymous trolls; they are part of a coordinated network of public X accounts tied to Gab AI. This feature investigates who runs that network, why it exists, and how it draws inspiration from the racist past of Gab’s founder.
Andrew Torba: A History of Bigotry and Deplatforming
Andrew Torba calls himself a “Christian entrepreneur and American populist,” but his record tells a different story. In 2016, he joined Y Combinator with an advertising‑technology startup. Not long after, Y Combinator banned him from its alumni network because he harassed fellow founders, boasting that he “helped meme a President into office” and calling his peers “cucks”[3][4]. Torba’s outbursts weren’t anomalies; they foreshadowed a pattern of escalating extremism…….”
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