The founder of Gab.com said activity on the social network, criticized as a far-right haven, has soared because of users riled by censorship on larger Silicon Valley platforms.

Gab, which was launched by Andrew Torba in 2016 as an alternative to Twitter, has more than 1 million users worldwide and has seen record traffic over the past two weeks, Torba told the Washington Examiner. Twitter, by contrast, has 110 million users a day, while Facebook has 1.6 billion.

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