Gab - 1792 Exchange

Rating Overview

Gab is Medium Risk.

Gab often yields to political activism in shaping corporate governance, potentially alienating consumers, dividing employees, and harming shareholders. The company implements race and identity-based policies that replace merit, excellence, and integrity with preferential treatment and outcomes. Gab occasionally embraces corporate initiatives that redirect its central focus from business goals to partisan policies and divisive issues at times. This approach fails to safeguard free exercise, free speech, and free enterprise.

Rating Criteria

Corporate Weaponization Risk Levels
Criteria	Risk Level
Cancellations	Lower Risk
Discriminatory Philanthropy	No Data
Employment Protection	Medium Risk

Corporate Weaponization ⓘ

Corporate Governance and Public Policy Risk Levels
Criteria	Risk Level
Advocacy Bias	High Risk
Funding	Lower Risk
Political Actions	No Data

Corporate Governance and Public Policy ⓘ

Rating Criteria Detail

Criteria Risk Level Rationale

Corporate Weaponization

Criteria:

Has canceled customers, suppliers, or vendors due to their political views or religious beliefs OR corporately boycotts, divests, or sanctions regions, people groups, or industries.

Risk Level:

Lower

Rationale:

Gab has not publicly canceled customers, suppliers, or vendors based on political views or religious beliefs. However, founder and CEO Andrew Torba has expressed that he has a personal policy of not communicating with “non-Christian” or “communist” journalists (1). It is unclear how this policy may extend to the company.

Criteria:

Charitable giving (including employee matching programs) policies or practices discriminate against charitable organizations based on views or religious beliefs.

Risk Level:

N/A

Rationale:

Gab does not publish charitable giving guidelines (1).

Criteria:

Employment policies fail to protect against viewpoint or other discrimination and/or are ideological in nature.

Risk Level:

Medium

Rationale:

Gab does not publish a nondiscrimination policy (1).

Corporate Governance and Public Policy

Criteria:

Uses corporate reputation to support causes, organizations, or policies hostile to freedom of expression.

Risk Level:

High

Rationale:

Andrew Torba, Gab’s Founder and CEO, has stated that “we’re not bending the knee to the 2% anymore,” referring to Jews and other comments that he made that were allegedly anti-Semitic posts on Gab (1). Torba and Gab have also made statements in support of the riots on January 6, 2021, saying “in a system with rigged elections there are no longer any viable political solutions,” and posted “would be a real shame if the people outside stormed the Senate” before the clash with police began (2). The official Gab account on Twitter has also shared direct quotes from QAnon (3)(4).

Criteria:

Uses corporate funds to advance ideological causes, organizations, or policies hostile to freedom of expression.

Risk Level:

Lower

Rationale:

Gab has not used corporate funds to advance ideological causes, organizations, or policies (1).

Criteria:

Uses corporate political actions and/or financial contributions for ideological, non-business purposes.

Risk Level:

N/A

Rationale:

Gab does not operate a PAC or engage in lobbying at this time (1)(2)(3).