EXCLUSIVE UPDATE: Stripe Payment Processor Bans Fundraiser for Mother Who Had Son Taken Over Maskless Facebook Photo
On Thursday, the Gateway Pundit reported on a mother’s desperate plea for help from the public after her son was taken from her over a photo she had posted on Facebook without a mask.
Included in the report was a fundraiser on the Christian donation platform GiveSendGo, so that Melanie Joseph could raise the money needed to fight back.
Immediately after the Gateway Pundit report was published, donations from sympathetic readers started to come in. First $100, then $25 — within minutes. Then, the donations abruptly ended.
It turned out that Stripe was refusing to accept donations for this mother’s legal fees and therefore GiveSendGo could not complete them.
After receiving multiple emails from Gateway Pundit readers about not being able to donate for several hours,