Payment Processor Stripe Backs Off Dr. Malone After Legal Threat

Stripe, the only payment processor Substack writers can use, has backed off a demand that Dr. Robert Malone link his bank account, according to the law firm Dr. Malone retained. Stripe earlier in March asked Dr. Malone, who has an EpochTV show, to “link the primary bank account for your business to your Stripe account,” which would enable Stripe to review the account’s “current account balance and transactions, as well as historical transactions,” according to emails reviewed by The Epoch Times. The request was part of “a routine credit review” of Dr. Malone’s Substack, one email stated. Stripe said that if the bank account was not linked, then it might block Dr. Malone from being paid....