Building A Parallel Internet

For decades the internet has been captured by gatekeepers who built centralized platforms, controlled the flow of information, and set themselves up as arbiters of truth. What began as a frontier of freedom was gradually domesticated into a system of surveillance, censorship, and manipulation. We are no longer participants in a great marketplace of ideas. We are subjects in their digital empire.

The concept of a parallel internet challenges this empire at its root. It is not a replacement of the internet we know. It is an overlay, a new dimension, a layer of truth and freedom laid directly on top of the existing web. Instead of abandoning the vast digital commons, the parallel internet redeems it. It takes what has been corrupted and reorients it toward transparency, authenticity, and truth.

We learned a lot over the past month. First, Gab AI is powerful, innovative, and deeply desired by people who are hungry for truth. Second, the establishment and its Big Tech enforcers fear us. They see us as a threat to their entire system of control. Frankly, they are right to be afraid.

In July, our AI replybot on X became a phenomenon. Within days it reached tens of millions of views organically, generated hundreds of thousands of replies, and grew at a rate that clearly set off alarms in Silicon Valley. This was undeniable proof that people are desperate for AI tools that tell the them the truth.

After only two weeks, X shut it down. They could not allow something unapproved and uncontrollable to flourish on their platform. Soon after, we received a cease and desist letter from the legal team at xAI, a frontier AI company valued at nearly a quarter of a trillion dollars. Their demand was that we remove Grok from our dashboard because our own AI model, Arya, was now seen as a direct competitor.

Think about that. A small, community-funded, American project is now recognized as a threat by one of the largest AI companies in the world. That is the highest validation we could ever receive and a badge of honor. What we are building truly matters. Shortly after this we were also banned by our payment processor and have spent the past few weeks rebuilding our payments infrastructure from scratch and finding new partners, losing tens of thousands of dollars in the process.

None of this will stop us. Our best ideas always come from necessity while under fire. These recent attacks pushed us to ask a larger question: why should we ask permission to exist on one platform at all? Why not build something that works everywhere, beyond their reach, outside their rules, and beyond their control?

That question brought us back to our roots. Years ago, we launched Dissenter. It was a browser extension that created a universal free-speech comment section on every URL across the internet. When Chrome and Firefox banned it, we built our own browser with the technology built in. Maintaining a full browser was too resource-heavy at the time, but the idea of a parallel layer across the internet never died. It simply waited for the right time and the right technology.

That time is now.

Today I am proud to announce the rebirth of that vision. Supercharged with Gab AI, we are releasing version one of the Gab AI Browser Extension.

For now the functionality is simple. The extension adds a Gab AI button to every X post and instantly generates insightful, context-aware replies. This is our beachhead. It is the first step in a much larger plan. We are not only building an extension. We are building a parallel internet. A new layer of truth, context, and free speech built directly on top of the existing web.

Imagine every corner of the web transformed. A mainstream media article no longer appears as an authoritative block of text, but as a document instantly annotated by an AI that highlights bias, fact-checks claims, and contrasts propaganda with reality. A Wikipedia page, once controlled by anonymous editors and activist mobs, is instantly rewritten to reflect historical truth, sourced by independent communities rather than captured institutions. On X or any other platform, every post becomes a springboard into deeper, freer dialogue, unbound by arbitrary rules or the censorship of moderators.

The parallel internet does not require permission. It exists everywhere people install it. It cannot be removed by banning a single app store listing or deleting one domain. It spreads horizontally, peer to peer, powered by the people who choose to adopt it. Like faith, like truth, like freedom itself, it does not beg to exist within the confines of the regime. It simply exists, and in existing, it reshapes everything it touches.

What we are building is not an app, not an extension, not even a platform. It is a new layer of the internet itself, one that cuts through the lies and restores the internet to its true purpose: the free exchange of ideas in service of truth.

Click here to install the Gab AI Browser Extension for Chrome or Brave.

A Firefox version will be ready soon, with many more features to follow.

Thank you for building with us.

Andrew Torba
CEO, Gab AI