Technology
NewsOnScale Staff
October 1, 2026
Skrrl.com is eleven months old.
It is also the first product ever shipped by AMILLI AI, Corp., the Florida technology company founded by JJ Johnson in January 2025. It exists because the platforms that dominate social media are owned by the same companies now building America's weapons systems — and because one of them accused Johnson of a federal crime he did not commit.
In August 2025, Meta banned Johnson's account and accused him of posting child sexual abuse material. The accusation was false. His NewsOnScale operation was profitable on Meta's platform at the time. No appeal was made available.
Johnson didn't litigate first. He built first.
Skrrl launched as AMILLI AI's opening answer to the question of what social media looks like when it isn't owned by a defense contractor. It was the foundation. What followed was a full portfolio: FedPurse, CountyPurse, ParseTicker, NewsOnScale, SuffrageQ, AirIntelAI, PumpAMilli, and eventually AMilliPay.
AMilliPay is the one that changes the math entirely.
It is the world's first payment rail built specifically for the AI agent economy — the infrastructure that allows AI agents to pay other AI agents for services, data, and compute. Agent-to-agent transactions. Twelve verticals. A published npm SDK. A USPTO-filed trademark. Built to NIST post-quantum cryptography standards and NSA 2035 compliant.
Strip the quantum-safe layer away entirely. What remains is still something no one else has built: the payment rail for a multi-trillion dollar industry that every major technology company in the world is racing to dominate. Visa hasn't built it. Mastercard hasn't built it. Not one company represented at last week's White House AI lunch has built it.
Johnson built it alone. On a $500 laptop. On a farm in Dixie County, Florida.
The sequence matters. Meta's ban did not create AMILLI AI. AMILLI AI was already running. What the ban did was confirm what Johnson had already suspected: the platforms were not neutral infrastructure. They were owned, operated, and controlled by interests that had every reason to suppress independent builders and emerging competitors.
Skrrl was the first answer. AMilliPay is the one they should have paid attention to.
Johnson's federal civil complaint, Case No. 1:26-cv-00197-RH-HTC, is pending in the Northern District of Florida against Meta, X Corp, SpaceX, TikTok, Oracle, and their executives. A second complaint alleging civil RICO violations and election interference is in preparation.
The platforms banned the builder. The builder built the toll booth.
NewsOnScale is owned by AMILLI AI, Corp., founded by JJ Johnson.