‘Welcome to #GabFam’: Far-right virtual community on Gab

With large social media platforms coming under increasing pressure to deplatform far-right users, the Alternative Technology movement (Alt-Tech) emerged as a new digital support infrastructure for far right. We conduct qualitative analysis of prominent Alt-Tech platform Gab, networking service primarily modelled on Twitter, assess virtual community platform. find Gab’s technological affordances – including its lack content moderation, culture anonymity, microblogging architecture and funding model have fostered an ideologically eclectic united by fears persecution at hands ‘Big Tech’. argue that this points emergence novel techno-social victimology axis community, wherein shared experiences or being deplatformed facilitate coalescing assorted tendencies online.