gab really does not.ing on gab without restrictions, without being sanctioned by companies. in effect, it's become the cesspool of hate for people who want to voice anti-semitic things. they want to be sexist, post racist memes and comments. those are the sort of people on gab. it's basically their home. they post things and other users encourage them to post these things. and i think in this case when i saw that the suspected shooter had gone and posted things on gab, it was no surprise. gab is really the home of a lot of these anti-semitic racist individuals. >> also "the washington post" reports that gab confirmed that it had deactivated the account by robert bowers, following the shooting. are there others who are, you know, currently speaking in the same kind of vein who continue to use gab as their platform? >> i mean, people -- i can't stress this enough. you hear a lot of people say someone posted an anti-semitic remark. on gab, they're the worst of the worst sort of posts. posts demeaning jewish

tech recoils from gab. gab is at the center of a storm against extreme ideology as it promotes itself as a haven for free speech amount look at the role played in the brazil pole. and the pittsburgh synagogue shooting as ahead. to our top story. i.b.m. throws its hat into the cloud computing ring. they are buying red hat though $33 billion. they spoke to bloomberg earlier about the sale. >> we have been working with i.b.m. for many, many years. and really over the course of this entire year we started to do more together. we made some big announcements in may at our summit of more work we are doing together. we started speaking more seriously back in april, and so it has been something that has kind of continued to evolve, and it became a natural next step. in terms of why we see so much value for red hat is we do see tremendous opportunity for open source in the enterprise, and as the leader there, we see a large market and a growing market in front of also. what we have lacked is scale in our go to market

a lot of the followers of the chiefdom down there is on gab.you pars what is news and what is not in an election important as this one? >> there are many platforms right now popping up with dirty information. what we do is we actually have a methodology that is part of the ifbn. it is the international fact checking network. it is being spread all over the world right now. what we did, this weekend on saturday and sunday, we have like an initiative, a collaboration between all of the platforms there doing fact checking here in brazil. just to give you an idea, we actually worked for 24 to 48 hours, and we debunked about 50 articles that were false information. that is a lot. that gives us a ratio of one lie per hour in the last weekend of the location in brazil. that is a lot. >> cris and david, thank you both for joining. speaking of gab.com and the role it played in the brazilian election, the social network is now under scrutiny in the u.s. it is a two-year-old network that billed itself as a free speech alternative. it has been a haven for

about 630 people are registered to gab. it was founded just a couple of years ago in san mateo and the ceo was 25 years old. today he said that gab is going nowhere. investigators say the alleged gunman, robert bowers frequented the social media site, gab.com, expressing anti-semitic views. >> a social media footprint for investigators is a treasure trove. >> in one case he uploaded a picture of three handguns. it's unclear if they were the same weapons used in deadly massacre saturday. now gab founded in san mateo is out of service today. last night the main registrar, go daddy plans to sever ties with gab in 24 hours for violating terms of service. go daddy said it investigated and discovered numerous instances of content on its site that promote and encourages violence against people. paypal also plans to dump gab, saying the site allowed the perpetuation of hate, violence or discriminatory intolerance. andrew tore ba says gab isn't going anywhere. in a statement he said we will exercise every possible avenue to keep gab

so that is the statement from gab. but there is a bigger problem here. forget about gab.won't exist in a few days and replaced by another site that will be a home, a swap for hateful people for racist people and bigots the biggest issue people can be radicalized on the internet. radical domestic terrorists are able to find a home. i think all of us who live in a free society and love the internet, we have to recognize that downside, that problem. >> are there consequences for gab? are there real consequences for twitter to try to manage this better, to alert authorities and when they don't, there could be a consequence for them and perhaps that would deter some of these smaller sites that give people freedom for hate? >> yeah. the consequences for gab are essentially capitalistic marketplace consequences. they said overnight that they are hosting service, the company that keeps them on the world wide web has threatened to take them down. that could be a business model, a marketplace consequence where the marketplace is voting. but, you know, whether gab goes away or not,

i think one more important thing to bring up, too, we talk about gab and gab is cesspool for hate, butarrested he was making all sorts of threats and violent comments on twitter, people report said those comments and twitter really do enough, didn't do anything. >> and he also shared these memes that might seem silly to people, anti-democrat posts, anti-media posts. they can seem reduckilous and nonsensical, but some people are influenced by them. jewel you, last quick thought on this? >> again, when the ground is fertile all this stuff blossoms. and the president that you showed at your previous rallies the chanting, that's terrifying. man, that takes me back and yesterday it took me back. that was an ocean fashioned pegrum, and they didn't happen without the person at the top condoning it tacitly or explicitly. >>> coming up a turn to the biggest media shake-up of the week. meghan kelly's media show is over. what you see. i'm craving something we're missing. the ceramides in cerave. cerave contains three essential ceramides, to restore the ones we've lost and help repair my natural b

, gab tweeted, you have our statement.with it. the southern poverty law center said it's no surprise to anyone, the shooter's online home was gab. >> it was the first place we looked, actually. >> reporter: the suspect posted about the infestation of jews. he reposted calls for jews to get out or leave. he promoted a conspiracy theory that it is jews helping transport migrants in the migrant caravans in central america, repeatedly calling those migrants invaders, using language common on right wing tv and radio. he linked the hebrew immigration aid society hias, an organization that helps resettle refugees to those caravans. hias likes to bring in invaders that kill our people, he posted. on saturday morning when he wrote, i'm going in, he was going into a synagogue that hosted a hias service just a week before. >> and wolf, an anti defamation league study released just this year found a staggering expansion of online harassment coincided with the increase in offline anti-semitism. the study specifically pointing at fringe

it hosted gab.company 24 hours to move to a different service, shutting it down to the meantime. that deal for gab expires monday night. in you go to the site it is just not functioning. bloging site medium, doing the same as two other platforms. gab is removed from app stores and payment processing firms. gab interesting enough denying supporting violence. it says it backed up the alleged shooter's profiles, suspended his account and contacted the fbi. it put out a stadium. gab.com is under attack. we've been smeared by the mainstream media defending free expression an individual liberty for all people and working with law enforcement. to insure justice is served for the horrible atrocity committed in pittsburgh gab will fight for the fundamental right to speak freely. this site has 650,000 users. it does not have filters. it is up to users to individually brock what they find offensive. for comparison twitter has 325 million users, facebook 2.2 billion. they have sims in place although flawed to a

it had hosted gab. it is giving gab 24 hours to move to different service.deadline expires monday night. a few other services are out right refusing to host gab. gab is fighting back believe it or not. they put out, i will read you part of the statement, we'll put it on the screen. gab.com is under attack. we've been smeared by the mainstream media by having free expression for all people and working with law enforcement. this is a part of a much larger statement. gab denies supporting violence t has backed up the alleged shooter's profile data, suspended his account as all other social media companies have and has contacted the fbi. this is the not first time that gab, at least is at the very least fighting with even the business community. it's a social networking site. it has 650,000 users t doesn't have filters. you basically have to decide what i say to you personally is offensive and you have to block me. twitter as we know by comparison, 325 million users, facebook, 2.2 billion and counting. i'm going down the list with some of the business community

minutes before the massacre, the pittsburgh gunman logged on to a website called gab. >> gab has becomeestination for this kind of speech, where the shooter regularly posted anti-semitic threats, conspiracy theories. the site has been taken down by hosting providers, following the shooting. it blames a smear campaign by the mainstream media. brian stelter, smear campaign blaming the mainstream media. familiar line of attack. >> yes, it is. we see some of this take root on social platforms. it's sort of a free speech utopia. that's what they claim. in reality, it is a favorite website of hate groups and bigots. it's relatively small. hateful people, anti-semits are able to meet on this website, communicate with each other and get even angrier. we're seeing radicalization, on gab, other social networks. hateful people are able to exist on the internet, get even angrier, even more radicalized and some of them do crazy things. in the case of the suspect in pittsburgh, we can see from the social media footprint that hatred of jews is the root of his evil. he also hated immigrants. he was bei

just tell us overall what is gab? how do people use it? >> fringe website that's a version of twitter. think of it as a version of twitter, but it's popular among alt-right members and other kind of folks that don't feel welcome on sites like twitter or facebook. we don't they feel william, they enforce a lot of guidelines, a lot of rules of the road. this individual was using gab to share his anti-semitic views, and as paul murphy pointed out, he has been doing a lot of research in the social media platform, anti-semitism was a fuel. it fuelled other hate speech that the suspect was posting. it wasn't just anti-semitism. it was also hate about immigrants, hate about other individuals, but at the core was this deep anti-semitism that you see on the social media footprint. >> several of the messages that he was posting was against a jewish refugee resettlement agency. that was his point that one of the points he was making is that this agency is bringing people in, jews in, and he said, machining many other things, that my people are being

the gab statement, gab unequivocally disa ovows and condemns all acts of terrorism and violence.ab's mission is very simple to defend free expression and individual liberty onliar for all people. >>> on the campaign trail in florida this morning, camilla harris condemned the violence in pittsburgh, she called a massacre of violence and hate. >> it was just hate, there's just no room for that in this country, whatever god anyone worships, whatever the language they speak or their grandparents speak, whatever party they are affiliated with, in this country, we cannot tolerate acts of violence. >> before today's game at brooklyn, he told reporters, it's just devastating, i just expect it now and that's the sad thing. we need our leaders to stand up and unite the country with the appropriate words and appropriate actions. we're not getting that right now, it's frustrating. you can share this badge listing all 11 of the lives lost in yesterday's attack. >>> much more to come, including a warning for drivers in the east bay. >>> credit card skimmers found at a gas pump and this one is

>> no, because they don't need to find gab.ou go on twitter and spread this information, you can spread fake news and do all of the things the suspected bomber did. when you have this middle area, that needs to be flagged and it needs to be tracked. there's plenty of things on twitter that will lead authorities to the bombing suspect. in fact, we sort of know that was one of the things that led them to the suspect. the change in behavior that the bombing suspect exhibited, before 2006 and after -- sorry, before 2016 and after 2016 is absolutely phenomenal and stark. before 2016 normal middle aged man, "the new york times" kind of makes the joke lots of good-looking women and food on his social media post. after 2016 he goes to isis, hillary clinton, guns, fake news and misinformation, an absolute switch. >> very clear distinctive move. i want to read a statement from gab saying they suspended bowers account after anti-semitic post. we first backed up all user data from the account and then proceeded to suspend the account. the

that's allowed on gab.a thing that's very much -- even the posts that he reposted up until gab was shut down over this weekend, were still up and live after the shooting. this is a thing -- it's tconten that's per sishs and disgusting. it's run by people who want it that way. they want -- they welcome all people and really, the only people that show up there are the people that have been banned from other places. >> harry, there's been a rise in hate speech, and instances of anti semitism online. the adl found between july of 2016 and january of 2018 the use of the term jew and derogatory terms for it grew and dra matly increased on gab. what's the message to people in your community, people back at your childhood synagogue about how to combat this? >> wow, is it tough. and attacks themselves are up 70%. you knew from the moment of the shooting you were going to go online and see something disgusting like this, but from law enforcement's perspective, seeing it -- you can see it all retrospectively, but seei

this web site that a lot of people don't know about, gab, i'm in communication with gab right now, gab has taken his postings offline and has offered them to the fbi and investigators. what we don't know is whether anything was done with his, in terms of action, by gab, to either bring down his site, notify authorities or notify the potential targets. we heard in the last hour, from frederica's guest, with the image refugee group, that they had not notified that they were the subject of concern, that someone had been essentially targeting them. so while there is a lot going on, but there is anti-semitism of course, name, it and also a sense of anti-immigrant or refugee. that seems to be a line in this right now. so clearly, a hate crime. it can always be ratcheted up at later stages. but right now, of course, it is just to try to get this community back together. >> that platform that you mentioned, not terribly well known to most, i would imagine, i hadn't heard of it until today, and apparently, it has notoriously lax speech rules. but they have come out with a -- >> and notification

gab has been cut off from some bay area companies and has been forced to switch web hosts.r lillian kim has the story. >> reporter: gab describes itself as a free speech alternative from facebook and twitter. >> it's certainly a community of people who have very strong opinions that don't hesitate to share them even when it constitutes hate speech. >> reporter: but now the 2-year-old social media site says it's working around the clock to keep gab online after it became known that bowers used the site to post anti-semitic messages. although it released a statement saying gab unequivocally disavows and condemns all acts of violence, san jose's paypal canceled the account, and stripe said it was suspending transfers to the site's bank account. >> right now it seems the answer silicon valley has come up to try to silence these extremists is to cut off their oxygen supply, whether it's to shutdown their access to these services or shutoff their ability to get stuff like funding. >> gab charges access through additional features and raises money through crowd funding as well. th

today gab saying, they defend free speech, gab has spent the past 48 hours proudly working with the doj and fbi to bring justice to an alleged terrorist. adding, people are waking up, so please keep pointing the finger at a social network instead of pointing the finger at the alleged shooter who holds sole responsibility for his actions. law enforcement officials say the 46-year-old was not on their radar. chris hall, that neighbor says bowers never socialized and never revealed a hint of his alleged anti-semitism. no sign of anything. >> no sign of anything. i wish i knew something. >> reporter: according to the police bowers bo worked as a trucker for a short period last year had amassed a cache of weapon, all of them purchased legally. authorities telling abc news they recovered ten firearms from the scene and from his home. today, the alleged gunman was released from allegheny general hospital and shows the moment doctors worked to save his life. >> i asked him how he was doing. was he in pain and he said, no, he was fine. >> reporter: the president of the hospital responsible for h

on saturday evening after the shooting gab users were calling the shooter a hero. on its website gab says it's the alleged shooter who holds sole responsibility for his actionsch when cnn tried to get more information on the suspect's profile gab tweeted you have our statement, deal with it. surn poverty law center says it's no surprise to anyone the shooter's online home was gab. >> it was the first place we looked actually. >> reporter: the suspect posted on the infestation of jews and promoted a conspiracy theory that it is jews helping transport migrants from the migrant caravans from central america. repeatedly calling the migrants invaders using language commented on fox news and right wing media. he linked the hias organization, and hias likes to bring in invaders that kill our people, he posted on saturday morning when he wrote i'm going in. he was going into a synagogue that hosted a hias service just a week before. drew griffon, cnn, atlanta. >> and mark hedfield is with me now. thanks for being with us. obviously sorry it's under these circumstances. whe

gab has been smeared by the mainstream media. site will be inaccessible after the host kicked them off. you will not find it on the app store. twitter has come under criticism for its response to hate speech two weeks before he sent bombs to offices, cesar sayoc threatened a political analyst on twitter. twitter said the threat did not qualify for the rules against use of behavior. when sayoc was arrested, twitter apologized saying it should have taken different action. cnn asked for a comment and they said they do not have a comment on law enforcement investigations. >> do we have the resources to police? >> that is the question. one alerted them and nothing happened. >>> all right. it was a nasty weekend in the northeast. a blustery morning as well. it does get better. we will have the forecast for you next. so, let's talk about conference calls. there's always a certain amount of fumbling. a lot of times it doesn't work. we have problems. comcast business goes beyond fast. by letting you make and receive calls from any device

bowers was use be gab to spew his and twitter skating free. godaddy, all cutting ties with gab.utting ties gab is perpetuating hatred and discriminatory inflammatory discrimination. why is twitter allowing louis farrakhan to stay on their platform when he perpetuated hatred and anti-semitism. at some point, charles, i will sound like a broken record. i think these tech companies can no longer be their own arbiters. they cannot self-police themselves. i think we've got to go back to the telecommunications act of 1996, section 230, you know what, amazon, google, facebook, twitter, enough is enough. you will come under and play by the same rules. >> that is terrible idea. >> no it is not. they are tell communications companies. hold on, they are telecommunications companies. charles: hold on second. let me get matt in, i will circle back. it is rare also, that we actually have a, someone, a conservative and liberal agreeing and both you guys, matt and antwan shaking their heads. you're the odd man out here. >> what happens when you get politicians involved in policing internet is e

gab attracted alt-right figure who is are banned from twitter for harass. . conspiracy theorists alex jones, former breitbart writer, andrew and richard spencer. along with people like the alleged shooter who harbor extremist views. after the shooting, the platform suspended the shooter's account saying they condemn all acts of terrorism and violence. but the site is now offline. it was dropped by several key services over the weekend including its domain registrar go daddy and stripe and paypal which facilitate payments from pro membership users. but it promises to return. leveling charges of smear and censorship. >> let's dig into this more. joining us, reporter ben collins and former fbi special agent with the joint terrorism task force clint watt and specialize in hate speech and thing that is go on on the internet. ben, is there anything this assassin wrote or posted on gab that would have gotten him in trouble with facebook or twitter? >> most things. he said i'm going in. right? it was after days of posting anti-semitic nonsense. specifically one consp

gab said the data from bowers' account was backed up and then suspended.ots to talk about, and with us tonight jeremy bash, former chief of staff at the cia and the pentagon and client watts, a former fbi special agent and member of the joint terrorism task force. gentlemen, good evening to you both. clint, because it was the last thing we mentioned i would like to begin with you. how on earth do the good guys -- and by that i define as the feds, the fbi, et al, your former colleagues, stay ahead of this stuff? how on earth would you have found this guy living in a ram shackle apartment, posting hate on the web? >> it is much more difficult in the do mets tick extremism case to be honest. i mean what we see is whether it is twitter, facebook, youtube, sbeerngs terrorist or domestic extremist, eventually they get pushed off platforms and they look for a place where their speech is not moderated at all, the terms of service aren't enforced in any way that moderates them, encrypted communications and anonymity where they can say what they want and not be pinn

avenue to keep gab online and defend free speech. the line between free speech and online harassment can be thin. ask just erin. >> i received tens of thousands of pieces of hate speech and death threats across twitter, facebook, instagram, youtube on the sole basis of the fact that i was born jewish. >> reporter: the 27-year-old says while she was running for congress, she was targeted by an anti-semitic website "the daily stormer" in a so-called troll storm. a barrage of derogatory and racist messages dispatched online. >> i saw my face with a yellow jew star next to a monster. the e-mail read get back to israel. these digital companies need to step up and recognize the role that they have to play in protecting innocent people, innocent lives all across this country and around the world. >> reporter: in separate statements about posts we discovered and monitoring hate speech and hate groups on their sites, instagram, twitter, and facebook stressed they are working tirelessly to combat the problem, while pointing to their individual

if you could explain what gab is.st of us know of for longtime silicon valley has not wanted to regulate or censor political content and wanted to view itself as the at&t of the internet. obviously, at&t does not censor people. if you want to use -- if you're white supremacist and what use the telephone, and lets you. silicon valley has begun, because the public has been demanding it, censoring barredal content, those from using facebook or twitter. as is predictable other social promisempanies making a to people not to censor them began to emerge and gab was designed to essentially allow the far right censored from twitter to migrate their and you social media there. and that is where this killer, otherothers, like neo-nazis who are banned from facebook and twitter have migrated to come and it has hub of that and the wake of this pittsburgh shooting, they have now been censored in a sense by private financial firms that will process their payments and internet companies that won't post their site any longer, and atte

all right so do we expect any consequences or regulation for this site so gab has already been banned on the google play store for example and paypal just recently just after listeners events cut the relationship and at the moment it does not look like gab will be able to continue as they have done before because the site's hosting provider announced that they will not host the site anymore starting on monday so it's likely that guy will go down for at least a couple of months max and over the very latest thank you. brazilians are also at the polls today voting in a presidential runoff where the far right candidate variable so narrow is set to win the sixty three year old is a former army captain and has been criticized for making a string of sexist homophobic and racist remarks he's also prepared to repeatedly praised the military dictatorship which ruled the country from one nine hundred sixty four to one nine hundred eighty five also now is up against a leftist candidate for a dad going into the vote opinion polls put them eight to ten percentage points apart. and ophelia homes are

of gab puts it free speech in his beliefs his free speech means you can't offend criticize and make means about any race religion ethnicity or sexual orientation according to gallup so in this basically according to him this shows the spirit of gab was a plantation all right so do we expect any consequences or regulation for this site so gab has already been banned on the google play store for example and people just recently just after listeners events cut the relationship and at the moment it does not look like gab will be able to continue as they have done before because the site's hosting provider announced that they will not host the site anymore starting on monday so it's likely that guy will go down for at least a couple of months well max and over the very latest thank you resilience of voting in a runoff presidential election today and for the first time in decades a far right candidate is set to win going into the vote opinion polls we're giving show you both a narrow and eight to ten point lead over his leftist rival financial had bad all the way. this is brazil's most polarize

according to the site itds, gab's mission very simple. defend free speech and individual liberty for all people. saturday evening after the shooting, gab users were calling the shooter a hero. the alleged shooter who holds sole responsibility for his actions. when cnn tried to get more information on the suspect's profile, gab tweeted you have our statement. deal with it. southern poverty law center said it's no surprise to anyone that the shooter's online home was gab. >> the first place we looked, actually. >> the suspect posted about the infestation of jus. he reposted calls for jews to get out or leave. he promoted a conspiracy theory that it is jews, helping to transport migrants on the migrant caravans in central america, repeatedly calling them invaders, using language common on fox news and right wing radio. hias, an organization that helps resettle refugees. hias likes to bring in invaders that kill our people on saturday morning when he wrote "i am going in," he was going in to a synagogue that hosted a hias service just a week

pulled its remarks after go daddy gave it 24 hours to move to another service. >> gab is an alt-right fringe social network that launched in 2016 as an alternative to twitter or facebook or youtube. it is a place where people anything they bard. >> several hours after yesterday puffs tack paypal banned gab. he said since social media companies began banning hate speech alternative platforms started to emerge. >> unfortunately that means a lot of people talk about things that are just hateful and disgusting because nobody is stopping them and because there is no rules about content other than violence, you are not allowed to post anything violent but you can talk your way around violent subjects. >> gab says it condemns all acts of terrorktvu fox news for more coverage of the horrible shooting at the tree of life synagogue. coming up how san francisco came together to remember the victims. >>> new developments after near possessions stolen. it happened when a man stole their uhaul and their belongings. tonight there is good news are the family. their uhaul has been found and most belon

lot about this social media platform obviously coming in light of this shooting what distinguishes gab from other social media platforms like to attend facebook and they look very similar yes so most importantly compared to twitter and facebook the network gap has very few rules it's also a lot smaller it has a lot fewer people who are active on it but it has a very limited user guidelines and a lot of users feel they're not welcome on twitter and facebook because they're they cannot engage in a live views and hate speech and things like that so and gap basically is a haven a safe place to do so for them do you think though because the quinces for gab there have been consequences already the app is banned in the good place for has been banned for a year now already but people just cut off their relationship following yesterday's events and at the moment it does not look like i will be able to continue its service as has right now because there's hosting provider just announced they will pull their service and that starts on monday so it's likely gavel go down for a couple months well m

gab released a statement last night. gab has been smeared by the mainstream media.efending free expression and individual liberty for all people. it says the site will be inaccessible for a period after its host kicked them off. twitter has come under criticism for its response to hate speech two weeks before he sent bombs democrats and cnn offices, cesar sayoc threatened rochelle richie. richie reported the threat. twitter said the threat did not qualify for the rules against use of behavior. when sayoc was arrested, twitter apologized saying it should have taken different action. >> it is all reactive to all of these. instead of proactive. >> the roots of the social media platforms is civil libertarian. this is free speech. now obviously there are big, big questions about whether that is good for america and whether conversations on the fringes of society is now mainstream. >> that discussion will continue in the weeks ahead. >>> meanwhile, fans in boston prepare for another parade. red sox finish off the dodgers in the world series. andy scholes shows us how in t

it says gab unequivocally disavows and condemns all acts of terrorism and violence. san francisco-based stripe said it was sending transfers to the bank account. >> the answer to try to silence these extremists and people who are on the political fringes is to consult off their oxygen supply, whether to shut down access to these services or shut off their ability to get stuff funded. >> it raises money through crowd funding as well. >> i think they will go further underground and even darker. they may lose some of their closer to mainstream audience. but the dedicated racists and nazis and anti-semites will probably find a way to kphaou communicate approximately. >> lilian kim, abc 7 news. >>> our coverage continues online. you can find out more about gab and the local impact at abc7news.com. >>> on the peninsula, san mateo police are trying to find out what went wrong after a teenage kayaker was badly hurt on the water. >>> abc 7 news was near mariners island boulevard after a boat hit the 15-year-old boy in a slew. they looked at both the kayak and the boat to lear

gab responded by saying it has a zero tolerance policy for terrorism and violence. researchers say there's a spike in anti-semitic posts across several platforms. >> among the many political leaders senator bernie sanders at a rally today in berkeley. >> we've got a stand up to the gun lobby and we need common sense gun safety legislation, guns should not be in the hands of people who should not have them, but even more important. we have got to end that hatred, that bigotry which is sweeping this country. they're going to be following the latest developments out of pittsburgh on the home page. nbc bay area.com. while it was on all of the digital platforms to get all the decease. >> bernie sanders in town today. he joined forces with barbara lee to rally voteners berkeley. the pair are encouraging people to get to polls on election day. nbc bay area is there where christie, he was energizing voters. that's right. it was absolutely packed today. brought the crowd to their feet several times in berkeley talked about the importance of voter turnout especially during th

when it comes to attacks like the one we saw in pittsburgh at the synagogue well certainly nobody at gab pulled the trigger i'm not blaming the founder of the organization for the horrible tragedy. but i do think that they create a forum where these types of messages can be perpetuated i went on there yesterday and looked around and there were a lot of anti-semitic anti muslim anti-gay comments there which i think do fan fan the flames of hatred so while it's certainly proper for people to have discussions about how they feel about various issues when you start demeaning entire groups of people really be religion flag judaism in islam when you do that in a hateful manner you do thirteen lee encourage people like this man who did the shoot out now again i don't say that to get people get anything illegal but they are creating an environment where these kinds of conversations can take place and hate is just festering so how can they be controlled and shut they be controlled if they are providing the breeding grounds for hate speech to fester on mine. well here in the united states we have

that's why gab is knocked offline.ne way it's strange that hosting providers get to make the decision about a conversation that people talk. should they have that power over free speech? if you think of it as a free speesh questio speech question, it's strange. but did gab radicalize this person, in turning him into the person to do what he did, then it's a different conclusion. >> the question about whether with you can be radicalized online, it's already been supported by our government. we believe that after 9/11 with people had access to isis supporters and those trying to radicalized isolated individuals. social media has agreed with this and worked to take these individuals down. why not when it comes to alt-right extremists online? >> it's very hard to identify what is extremism and what exactly is hate speech. words are very complicated in different context. and in the particular case of bowers, yes, it's very easy to identify what he was doing. he should have been found, it should have been taken down. but as

the social media network gab, which robert bowers reportedly used, appears to have been forced off-linehe shooting, and account linked to bowers taking aim at the hebrew immigrant and society, jewish nonprofit group. a post reading "hias likes to bring invaders in that killer people. i can't sit by and watch my people get slaughtered. screw your optics, i'm going in." the founder says his site has a policy of removing threats, but that bowers' posting was vague. >> you see a direct threat in there? because i don't. would you expect us to do with a post like that? do you want us to just censor anybody who says the phrase "i'm going in?" is that we are proposing, here? i think that's absurd. here's the thing, he answered to bad speech or hate speech or whatever you want to define that is more speech. it always will be. >> melissa: in the meantime, twitter is apologizing after the revelation that and account appearing to belong to made threats against political strategist rochelle ritchie. she was told the tweets did not violate twitter's rules against abusive behavior. twitter now posting

well, gab responded to that by saying it has a zero tolerance policy for terrorism and violence.e're going to be following the latest developments on the pittsburgh synagogue shooting on our home page, nbcbayarea.com. follow us on all of our digital platforms to get latest details. and tomorrow morning the synagogue shooting will be a major topic of discussion on "meet the press" with chuck todd. tune in at 8:00. >>> we're learning new details about the investigation into the pebsent to democratic leaders this week. senior law enforcement officials say ty believe the explosive devices were constructed in cesar sayoc's van. the florida man lived in that van, which was covered reportedly with pro-trump images. it's believed the 56-year-old acted alone. sayoc is accused of sending 14 bombs through the mail, including one that ended up in burlingame. it was intended for democratic . >>> a deadly shooting in the east bay stopped train service for several hours this evening. someone shot two men in richmond near the capitol corridor station. paramedics rushed them to the hospital where

post anything violent or instigating violence but you can talk your way around violent subjects. >> gab says that it unequivocally disavows and condemns all acts of terrorism and violence. >>> new this morning, high school student in north carolina is in the hospital after being shot on campus. the shooting happened this morning at butler high school in matthews. 12 miles southeast of charlotte. authorities say that the suspect is a student at the school and has been arrested. the school district says that there is no further danger. parents gathered outside of the school and students streamed off of the campus when the lockdown was lifted about an hour ago. developing news from indonesia. the search continues after an airplane crashed with 109 people onboard. the airplane went down 13 minutes after takeoff from the capital city of jakarta. rescue officials say that they do not expect to find any survivors. they found human remains. the location of the airplane has not been found. video shows an oil slick on the water in the area where the airplane is believed to have crashed. transport

as you mentioned, it's on this social media platform called gab.s popular among far right figures who feel their views aren't welcome on other services of social media. the account is no longer active. it was a cached version of it that shows posts that are anti-semitic and anti-refugee in nature and are critical of president trump. the user profile message states, quote, jews are the children of satin, and a post written shortly before the shooting criticizes a jewish organization which assists refugees and includes a statement that says, screw your optics, i am, quote, going in. now a counterterrorism official briefed on the probe confirms that they are looking at that gab account as well as all social media, keying in on what bowers posted, but also on conversations with other people and what was said to him. the social media company gab says that shortly after that attack and being alerted to the profile it quickly backed up the data, suspended the account and contacted the fbi and says it will work with law enforcement to see that justice is s

google play also has blocked gab.k and just said, are you also going to take them off. they put me toward their corporate communication language saying they don't comment on individual accounts. they don't allow content that praises horrific acts. >> shepard: good enough. deer bra bolton, thank you. >>> president reagan's speech reiter, peggy noonan, reminded me about context and what all of us might take awhich from the massacre in pittsburgh. peggy is a columnist for "the wall street journal." she spoke on another network and ree-mailed as we sometimes do. she offered me this, quoting peggy. after dreadful stories like this weekend, it feels important to me that we not let these whack jobs give us an unhealthy vision of ourselves as a people. america is more defined by the people that ran to the shooting to help and it is by the man who did the shooting. america, she said, is the community of squirrel hill, that fabulous place, that came together in stunning acts of immediate solidarity. peggy said this is a up to t

." >>> the social media site gab pulled its website after its domain provider get it 24 hours to move to another service. >> gab is an alt right fringe social network that launched in 2016 as an alternative to twitter or facebook or youtube. it is just a place where people can talk about anything they want and it's no holds barred. >> several hours after the attack the online page system paypal banned the social media network and ryan eldridge is the founder of nurse on call and he said since major media companies began actively banning hate speech alternative platforms have begun to emerge. >> that means a lot of people get on there and talk about things that are hateful and disgusting. and no one is stopping them because there is -- as long as there is no rules about content, other than violence, you can't instigate violence but you could talk your way around violent subjects. >> gab says it unequivocally disavows and condemns all acts of terrorism and violence. >>> 5:06 a.m. and let's get you the latest on the situation in pennsylvania as we await the suspects court appearance late

on gab, which has nearly a half million users, bowers reposted vile comments like this, it's the filthy evil jews bringing the filthy evil muslims into the country. about president trump he wrote, trump is a globalist not a nationalist. there is no make america great again as long as there is a blank infestation. bowers using a racial slur for jewish. law enforcement officials saying the 46-year-old not on their radar. a neighbor describing bowers as reclusive. >> the most terrifying thing is just how normal he seemed. >> reporter: if convicted, bowers faces the death penalty. based on the attorney general's statement, it's likely to be pursued. pierre thomas, abc news, washington. >> the president in the meantime is facing a fresh round of calls to tone down his rhetoric following that attack. the president said he did not cancel his weekend campaign rallies because we can't let evil change our lives. >> last night's vigil attracted mourners from the jewish community and beyond. >> yeah, thousands showed up at pittsburgh's soldiers and sailors memorial hall. despite the pouring rain, t

gab responded by saying it has zero tolerance policy for terrorism and violence. re say there's been a spike in anti-semitic posts across several social media platforms ahead of the november election. . >>> well, of course we'll be following the latest developments on the pittsburgh synagogue shooting on our home page. you can follow us on all of our digital platforms to get the very latest details on this story. >>> new at 5:00, a very bad situation in san francisco. building inspectors are investigating a balcony collapse. the third floor collapsed just after midnight. this happened near 26th avenue. that's in the outer sunset district. two women were taken to the hospital with serious injuries. investigators have not released any new information on their conditions. >>> the search is on for the person who shot a man near a peninsula train station. we first told you about this as breaking news last night at 11:00. san matteo police got a call. they say they found a man in the parking lot who had been shot once. paramedi paramedics took him to the hospital. polic

of satan. >> we stand together as a community, a community that rejects hatred and >> he posted on gabch my people get slaughtered. screw your optics, i'm going in. >> i think this is another example of hate in our country that just doesn't go away. >>> the mayor called saturday the darkest day in pittsburgh's history. he was taken into custody. now prosecutors want to seek the death

on gab, which has nearly 500,000 users, bowers reposted vile comments like this. "it's the filthy, evil jews bringing the filthy, evil muslims into the country." about president trump, he wrote, "trump is a globalist, not a nationalist. there is no make america great again as long as there is a blank infestation." bowers using a racial slur for jewish. tonight, law enforcement officials saying the 46-year-old was not on their radar. a neighbor describing bowers as reclusive. >> the most terrifying thing is just how normal he seemed. >> and pierre joins us live. we know the suspect is facing charges on 29 federal counts, 22 of them make him eligible for the death penalty? >> reporter: that's right, jeff sessions specifically mentioned the death penalty in his statement. it's extremely likely, if bowers is convicted, the death penalty will be pursued. >> pierre, thank you. >>> president trump, immediately condemning the attack. in his first moment before the cameras after this happened, he did suggest it would have been better if they had protection at the synagogue

. >> the social media platform gab where the suspect had been posting remarks pulled its website. this was after that provider gave it 24 hours to move to another service. >> gab is essentially an alt right fringe social network that launched in 2016 as an alternative to twitter and facebook or youtube. it is come together and talk about anything that they want. it is no holds barred. >> several hours after the attack saturday, the online payment system paypal band bama. the founder of nerds on call says that since major social media companies began banning, alternative platforms have begun to emerge. >> unfortunately that means a lot of people get on there and talk about things that are just hateful and disgusting because frankly nobody is stopping them and because there is no rules about the content other than violence, apparently not allowed to post anything violent or instigating violence but you can talk your way around violent subjects. >> gab said it quote unequivocally disavows and condemns all acts of terrorism and violence. >>> a high school student north carolina died a

the suspected shooter had an account on gab, and had posted many anti-semitic threats, including oneht before yesterday morning's attack. gab builds itself as a network for creators who believe in free speech, individual liberty and the free flow of information. gab responded by saying it has a zero tolerance policy for terrorism and violence. >>> we of course will be following the latest developm t developments in the pittsburgh synagogue massacre on our home page nbcbayarea.com. follow us on all of our digital platforms to get the very latest. >>> in just about a half hour from this morning, the synagogue shooting will be a major topic of discussion on "meet the press" with chuck todd. tune in at 8:00, right after this newscast. >>> we are learning new details about the investigation into the pipe bombs sent to democratic leaders. senior law enforcement officials say they believe the explosive devices were constructed inside cesar sayoc's van. the florida man lived in that van, which was covered with pro-trump images. the former employer says sayoc was always on time and did his jo

let us not forget social media sights like gab that give a place for people to express these kind ofentiments. that is where we found the suspect and him spewing such hate, even warning that he was about to go in. we do know for many months of looking at gab, i cover hate in this country, and i actually ended up going there after charlottesville because that is where many of the white supremacists and neo nazis migrated to because they kept getting kicked off of platforms like twitter. so it is a place even a few minutes after this horrible massacre, after the world learned of it, there were many, many anti-semitic troupes all over that social media site. john? >> sara sidner in pittsburgh. sara saying she covers hate in this country, sadly it appears as if it's a growing beat. we thank you for the work that you do on that. there are those who have noticed including jonathan greenblatt that there has never been as safe of a space for anti-semitism to thrive as exists now on social media. so what is silicon valley doing to stop it? we will discuss next. so, let's talk about conference