PayPal has admitted to banning users for called out the COVID-19 vaccines because that didn’t align with official narratives, including terminating the account of a prominent children’s rights campaigner.
The payment giant shut down the account of Molly Kingsley, founder of the parent campaign group UsForThem, after she publicly opposed mandatory Covid vaccinations for children and school closures.
Kingsley revealed that PayPal informed her in September 2022 that her account was terminated due to “the nature of its activities.”
PayPal froze Kingsley’s account, which was used to receive donations, citing that it violated the platform’s “acceptable use” policy.
UsForThem and Kingsley had been outspoken critics of forcing children to wear face masks, mandatory vaccinations, and prolonged school closures.
PayPal eventually clarified its reasoning, stating the account closure was related to “content published by UsForThem regarding mandatory Covid-19 vaccinations and school closures,” as reported by The Telegraph.
The account was reinstated less than a month later after the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) intervened.
However, PayPal had targeted other individuals and groups critical of Covid restrictions without offering official explanations at the time.
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Among those affected was Toby Young, a free speech advocate whose blog The Daily Skeptic criticized Covid mandates, as well as lawyers in the Law or Fiction group who opposed restrictions.
They described PayPal’s actions as a “China-style assault on free speech,” accusing the platform of depriving them of access to their funds.
New legal documents from the pre-action phase reveal that PayPal spent months compiling a “dossier of information” about Kingsley before freezing her account in September 2022.
The dossier even included quotes from her book, The Children’s Inquiry. Around the same time, the UK’s Counter Disinformation Unit, known for monitoring and suppressing dissenting opinions about lockdowns, was surveilling Kingsley’s social media.
PayPal declined to comment on “individual customer accounts” but insisted its actions are objective and not influenced by politics.
However, Kingsley disagrees, asserting that PayPal has effectively confirmed suspicions of politically motivated debanking. “PayPal appears to have admitted what we had suspected all along: that it was targeting those of us who criticized the government’s Covid response and lockdown narrative,” Kingsley stated.
She added, “For more than two years, PayPal has resisted my efforts to uncover what happened.”
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