Two hours later, Bowers allegedly shot 11 jews in a Pittsburgh synagogue, and within hours the massacre was tied back to Gab. In an attempt at damage control, Torba not only willingly handed Bowers’ data over to the FBI (without even waiting for a warrant), he handed over all his users’ data and took the site down, citing anticipation of media smears.
Gab even has a streamlined process for snitching on its users to federal authorities with a service called Kodex. A fellow YCombinator startup85, Kodex describes itself as a “workflow management web platform that allows compliance & legal teams to effectively collaborate with governments on the millions of data requests that are sent each year in response to abuses online” and was founded by both “FBI and private sector technology leadership”86. Gab’s cooperation with federal law enforcement through Kodex has been documented by court documents, with one instance in August of 2022 in which Gab provided a user’s IP address which allowed him to be identified by law enforcement after making edgy, vaguely threatening posts regarding the FBI87. When asked about this by a user, Torba admitted to using Kodex and claimed he was protecting the Gab community.
Example of one of the FBI filing that Gab participated in with Kodex and MEMRI. MEMRI was co-founded by former Israeli military intelligence officer Yigal Carmon and Israeli-American political scientist Meyrav Wurmser.
https://providencepost.com/torba-grift-of-gab/