Basically makes the claim that curation is censorship, vast liberal left-leaning conspiracy to silence news from the right, strokes the ego by saying users can figure out real from fake news. Also, if you Google GAB there's a lot of news reports about it being a safe haven for the alt-right to spew hate speech that got them banned from Twitter and other discussion spaces.
> the rise of populism and cultural enlightenment
It's either one or the other. A culturally enlightened electorate is largely immune to populism.