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IN-DEPTH: GoFundMe Hosts Sex-Change Surgery Fundraisers for Minors

For children, raising money from strangers for a sex change is just a click away on GoFundMe.com. GoFundMe is the world’s largest crowdfunding website. It has more than 100 million users and has collected $25 billion in donations for causes described on the website. Detransitioner Chloe Cole, who now regrets a mastectomy she got with…


Windsor Police Officer Must Work Unpaid Hours as Penalty for Donating $50 to Freedom Convoy

As punishment for donating $50 to the Freedom Convoy, a Windsor police officer will have to work unpaid hours after being previously convicted of discreditable conduct. Const. Michael Brisco, who donated to the Freedom Convoy protest in Ottawa through GiveSendGo on Feb. 7, 2022, was on unpaid leave at the time because he didn’t meet Windsor…


Fundraiser Buys Deli Clerk New Car After Returning $15,000 in Cash

A Michigan woman who returned a bag containing nearly $15,000 in cash, receives generous reward from her community. On her way home from work through the snow, Dianne Gordon stopped at a local BP gas station for a snack on Jan. 21, where she noticed a ziplock bag just outside the door containing a large…


Woman Returns $15,000 Cash Found in Bag, Rewarded With New Car

A Michigan woman who returned a bag containing nearly $15,000 in cash has received a generous reward from her community. On her way home from work through the snow on Jan. 21, Dianne Gordon stopped at a local BP gas station for a snack, where she noticed a ziplock bag just outside the door containing…


GoFundMe Takes Down Campaigns for Arizona Rancher Accused of Shooting Illegal Alien

The GoFundMe fundraising website removed multiple campaigns that were set up to support and raise money for a 73-year-old Arizona rancher who was arrested in late January and charged with first-degree murder after allegedly shooting and killing an illegal alien who reportedly trespassed on his property. A spokesperson for the platform told NTD in an…


The Fall of the Lyin’ King: Congressman George Santos’s Downfall

Republican Congressman George Santos is stepping down from his committee assignments on Capitol Hill as investigations take place about a series of lies. His lying could mark a stain on a brand new Republican-led House that seeks to root out corruption. Politicians still feel that they can lie and be forgiven. But in the case…


Congressman George Santos’s Downfall

Republican Congressman George Santos is stepping down from his committee assignments on Capitol Hill as investigations take place about a series of lies. His lying could mark a stain on a brand new Republican-led House that seeks to root out corruption. Politicians still feel that they can lie and be forgiven. But in the case…


‘Seems Unlikely’ to Support Extremism: Federal Financial Intelligence Unit on Freedom Convoy Donations

A financial intelligence unit in Canada said in an internal memo that it saw no proof that the millions of dollars raised by the Freedom Convoy last winter were intended to support extremism. The memo, written by managers at the Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre (FINTRAC), and obtained by Blacklock’s Reporter, said it “seems…


No Evidence Freedom Convoy Donations Were From Criminal Origins: GoFundMe Exec

An executive from the online crowdfunding platform GoFundMe said in testimony before a parliamentary committee that there is no evidence suggesting that any of the funds raised for the Freedom Convoy protest through the platform were illegal or acquired through criminal means. Conservative MP Larry Brock asked GoFundMe general counsel Kim Wilford if she agreed that…


Conservative Activists Face Attacks on Fundraising

Conservative activists, especially those fighting what they describe as the “sexual grooming” of children, have a problem: the world’s largest fundraising platform can kneecap their efforts. Shawn McBreairty, a Maine parental rights advocate, has been fighting a radical LGBT curriculum in Maine’s Regional School Unit (RSU) 22. He recently won a $40,000 lawsuit against a…