“Repent now and accept Jesus Christ into your heart. Every knee will bow, yours included.”
That was the response from Andrew Torba, the founder of the social media site Gab, to a HuffPost reporter who wrote last week about Doug Mastriano’s gubernatorial campaign paying the site $5,000 for consulting services.
“We’re taking back this country for the glory of God and there’s absolutely nothing you can do to stop us,” Torba wrote to reporter Christopher Mathias.
HuffPost reported last week that new accounts on Gab now automatically follow Mastriano, a Christian nationalist and the Republican nominee for governor in Pennsylvania.
Gab, a platform favored by antisemites, extremists, and believers in the QAnon conspiracy theory, drew public scrutiny in 2018 after one of its users allegedly killed 11 people at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh.
In a video Torba posted on Saturday, he said the $5,000 payment from the Mastriano campaign was to “run ads on Gab social,” as other candidates are doing.
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