The website for Gab, a social media platform known for attracting a far-right audience, abruptly went offline on Friday. As of 8 p.m. ET, attempts to reach Gab’s website relayed a message that it’s ...

The Internet has a speech regulation problem. To a lot of people (including WIRED), harassment and hate speech are corruptions of the democratization promised by the Web, and websites like Facebook, ...

The mass shooting during services at a Pittsburgh synagogue Saturday is shining a spotlight on the social media platform Gab after the company admitted the alleged gunman may have used it to post ...

The purge is happening. At least according to the universe of alt-right users on social media: Many of them claim that in recent days their Twitter accounts have been suspended and that their posts on ...

Beleaguered social networking site Gab was breached on Monday, marking the second time in as many weeks that hackers have gained unauthorized access to a platform that caters to users pushing hate ...

Carrie was a managing editor at CNET focused on breaking and trending news. She'd been reporting and editing for more than a decade, including at the National Journal and Current TV. Gab.ai is out of ...

Months after a Gab user allegedly massacred Jewish worshippers at a synagogue, the extremist-friendly social-media site is in the middle of a full-scale meltdown, freezing its signups on Wednesday.

Gab, an alternative social media network popular with conservatives, the alt-right and some extremists, is surging in popularity after conservative social network Parler was effectively taken off the ...

You don’t have to like it. But there’s nothing you can do to stop it. Gab, the free-speech maximalist, social media network is decentralizing—relaunching its platform for its members on the Fourth of ...

PITTSBURGH -- The man arrested in the mass shooting Saturday at a Pennsylvania synagogue appears to have made virulently anti-Semitic posts on a social media platform popular with far-right figures ...

Social network Gab on Friday said it took itself offline "out of an abundance of caution" to fix a bitcoin spam issue. The company said it discovered and fixed a "security vulnerability" in its ...

WASHINGTON — A social networking website popular with white supremacists faced a fresh round of controversies this week after it banned the former system administrator of the neo-Nazi Daily Stormer ...