New Leak Suggests Most Users Funding Canada's 'Freedom Convoy' Reside in U.S.

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https://gizmodo.com/givesendgo-leak-freedom-convoy-canada-trucker-protest-d-1848534782

A data set leaked by an unknown hacker appears to show that Americans comprise a vast majority of the users donating to Canada’s “Freedom Convoy” protest via the website GiveSendGo, a Christian-oriented platform that’s raised more than $8.3 million to support the movement in opposition to public health measures intended to curb the spread of the covid-19 virus.

While the data set shows donors with Canadian addresses are responsible for a majority of the cash, almost half of the money—more than $3.6 million—appears to come from users with payment methods tied to U.S. residences.

The data was leaked Sunday night during the Super Bowl by a hacker who defaced GiveSendGo’s website, sending visitors to a separate site with a video that accused the company of trying to foment insurrection in Ottawa. A link to the data set was provided alongside the video.

GiveSendGo, which reportedly suffered a separate leak less than two weeks ago, has so far not responded to a request for comment attempting to confirm the veracity of the data. The company’s website is “currently offline for maintenance and server upgrades,” according to a message that appeared on its homepage at the time of publication.

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1. Not surprised

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2. Journalists & researchers are going thru the data

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3. For this thread

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4. DOJ official donated using government email

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Travis Allen 
@TravisAllen02
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Feb 14, 2022
An employee of the United States Department of Justice made a $50 donation to the “Freedom Convoy” using their official DOJ email address.

Travis Allen 
@TravisAllen02
Low ranking official, but this is a pretty bad look @TheJusticeDept

The comment attached to their donation:

"Thank you Truckers! It is working. Others have taken your lead like Australia, New Zealand, UK. I think the reason all these blue states in the USA have stopped the mask mandates is there were rumors that truckers here in the USA were

going to start a protest starting in CA to DC and the local and federal governments did not want that. And it is an election year. This is my second donation."
4:19 PM · Feb 14, 2022