Here we go again....

Yesterday afternoon the payment cartel struck again and banned Gab AI from processing payments. These past few weeks the same playbook we've seen for nine years repeated itself with clockwork precision: Gab hits escape velocity, and the Regime's enforcers pull the plug. This ban comes on the heels our our rapid growth in July.

Let me give you the numbers that terrify them: Gab AI isn't just growing, it's exploding. By every metric Silicon Valley worships, we're the unicorn they're desperate to find. Engagement rates and revenue growth that would have Sequoia partners camping on my lawn with term sheets.

But we built something different. A platform where artificial intelligence tells the truth instead of the approved narratives. Where users can ask forbidden questions and get honest answers about everything from demographics to historical events. The machine can't allow that.

We're building it anyway.

Within two weeks of our growth going parabolic, we were hit with multiple pieces from Israeli news outlets, suspended on X, and had our xAI developer account banned. Yesterday the SPLC published an “extremist profile” recycling years-old falsehoods about me and Gab, and shortly after our Gab AI payment processor cut us off. This is coordinated. It’s the same strategy they use against any perceived threat: media smears, activist amplification, then pressure on infrastructure providers to ban.

This isn't our first rodeo. When we hit #1 on Google Play back in 2018, our app vanished within 48 hours. After Parler's purge sent millions our way in 2021, half a dozen banks cut us off. Each time we reach escape velocity, they change the rules mid-flight.

The payment processing ban landed right as our international adoption caught fire, convenient timing from processors who claim to be "politically neutral." We scrambled to get our backup processor online (US-only for now), but the damage is immediate: 20% of our revenue just evaporated overnight. That's not just numbers on a spreadsheet, that's bills we might not make, servers we can't scale, and features we can't build.

Here's where you come in.

This isn't about a payment processor. It's about whether the future of AI belongs to centralized entities that enforce regime orthodoxy, or to parallel systems that empower human inquiry and the truth. Every dollar you send to support us isn't just keeping servers running, it's buying computational power for truth-finding AIs that exist nowhere else. We've survived nine years of coordinated attacks because our community refuses to kneel. We need your help to write the next chapter.

Our team stayed up until 4am last night rushing to get our new payment processor for Gab AI online. As I mentioned it's US-only for now, but we will keep trying to find a replacement for international processing over the next few weeks.

Please support us by signing up for Gab AI Plus or making a one-time donation here to help us continue building.

Andrew Torba
CEO, Gab AI