Full report
Points deducted by category
- DEI hiring, pay & suppliers: 3/15 points deducted
- Board recommended AGAINST the 2025 proposal for a report on charitable-giving risks (about 1.4% support). (source)
- Internal policies & benefits: 8/10 points deducted
- Free speech, debanking, deplatforming & anti-military/anti-American conduct: 18/15 points deducted (cap 15; MAJOR items are not limited by the cap)
- Closed Gays Against Groomers' PayPal and Venmo accounts, citing its Acceptable Use Policy. (source)
- Published an Acceptable Use Policy update allowing $2,500 damages for "misinformation." (source)
- Reversal: Said the misinformation clause was an "error" and withdrew it. (source)
- Partnered with the ADL to research and disrupt the flow of funds to "extremist and hate movements," with findings shared with other financial firms and law enforcement (undefined "hate" screening of customers). (source)
- Political giving (PAC, treasury, leadership): 0/10 points deducted
- Advocacy, lobbying & public statements: 0/15 points deducted
- Marketing, products & content: 0/10 points deducted
- Charitable & activist funding: 2.5/10 points deducted
- $530M commitment to "support Black businesses" and minority communities (incl. $15M for internal D&I). (source)
- ESG, activist investing & industry/regional boycotts: 0/10 points deducted
- China & foreign-adversary ties: 0/5 points deducted
- Election & voting-law activism: 4/10 points deducted
- PayPal is listed as a corporate signer of the "We Stand for Democracy" two-page ad (NYT and Washington Post, Apr 14, 2021), which opposed "any discriminatory legislation or measures that restrict or prevent any eligible voter" from voting, published as states including Georgia passed election-law changes. (source)
- Border & immigration enforcement: 2/10 points deducted
- PayPal Holdings, Inc. joined the "Brief of 143 U.S. Business Associations and Companies" (Supreme Court, DHS v. Regents, Nos. 18-587/588/589, Oct 3, 2019) supporting the challengers to the rescission of DACA. (source)
- Faith, family & children: 16/10 points deducted (cap 10; MAJOR items are not limited by the cap)
- Signed HRC's coalition statement opposing state legislation. (source)
- Joined the 32-business amicus brief against Catholic Social Services in Fulton v. City of Philadelphia. (source)
- PayPal signed the HRC-organized open letter (full-page Dallas Morning News ad, Mar 11, 2022; logo on the ad) opposing Texas's directive to investigate parents of transgender minors receiving gender-transition care: "The recent attempt to criminalize a parent for helping their transgender child access medically necessary, age-appropriate healthcare in the state of Texas goes against the values of our companies." (source)
- Climate & anti-fossil-fuel advocacy: 0/10 points deducted
- Second Amendment & lawful-firearms commerce: 0/10 points deducted
- Government-coordinated content moderation: 0/10 points deducted
- Abortion advocacy, benefits & funding: 0/10 points deducted
- American Workers & H-1B Displacement: 0/10 points deducted
Final verdict: Grade F
Grades run A (best) to F (worst) on a 0–100 scale, where a higher score is better: every company starts at 100 and loses points for each finding. Every finding links to its source. See how we rate for the scale and the category caps. Points from MAJOR items are not limited by the category cap, so a category can show more points deducted than its cap.