The whistleblower site DDoSecrets says it will selectively share 70GB of encrypted passwords, private posts, and more with "journalists, social scientists, and researchers." Gab CEO Andrew Torba acknowledged the breach yesterday.
https://www.wired.com/story/gab-hack-data-breach-ddosecrets/
It was not a honeypot. Founder is based, and moreover, he went to great lengths to even stand the place up. If it was a honeypot, they would have made it easy.
I mean founder (AT) was as based as DJT was.
It therefore depends whether you believe that DJT' win in 2016 and subsequent defeat in 2020 was all part of the plan (arranged) or not.
Just because someone strongly appears to be anti or has been persecuted by mainstream does not mean that they do not actually work for the deep state. This may have been a very long plan to construct and maintain a dissident profile and build a honeypot. Take Alex Jones for example.