Hacked convoy data shows more than half of donations came from U.S.

[discocrisco01]

Source: CBC

Although Canadians gave more money than Americans, more than half of the donations to the convoy protest made through the crowdfunding website GiveSendGo came from the United States, an analysis of hacked data from the site reveals.

The data — hacked illegally and released publicly late Sunday evening — sheds light on the identity of thousands of donors to the crowdfunding campaign.

A check by CBC News found that multiple names in the hacked data set correspond to names, dates and donation amounts collected independently by CBC News as the donations rolled in to GiveSendGo.

The data, which includes the home countries of donors, reveals that 55.7 per cent of the 92,844 donations made public came from donors in the United States, while just 39 per cent came from donors located in Canada.

Read more: https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/convoy-protest-donations-data-1.6351292

[wcmagumba]

1. We are turning into Canada's Russia....nt

[C_U_L8R]

2. Probably same dark money that funded the failed insurrection

Funding violence in other countries, that ought to come with consequences.

[Mary in S. Carolina]

3. Any chance

Joe public will be able to see the list of names? This would be so interesting

[Warpy]

7. It's called"dark money" for a reason

It has been converted back and forth into and out of cryptocurrency and laundered through offshore shell corporations to the extent the perpetrators think it will take decades to unravel.

Some of it won't, I hope. We have to hope the FBI has been more on the ball than they usually are.

However, the only names we're ever likely to see will be those of middle aged people in the heartland who read the title of the Go Fund Me page and no farther and sent fifty bucks they couldn't afford to something they thought had something to do with Christianity.

The billionaires will be well protected, as usual, even should the dark money be fully traced into their petty cash accounts.

[Corgigal]

4. Squid games

for rich people. They are counting on us not knowing who is doing what.

[LuckyLib]

5. If you told these yahoos they had to send money

to folks in a foreign country they’d be outraged. The stupid just amazes me.

[tenderfoot]

6. How the New York Times reported it...

Canadians are responsible for roughly half the money raised online for the trucker convoy, leaked data shows.

Link to tweet

Someone alert New York Times Pitchbot

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/14/world/canada/canada-trucker-protests-donations.html

[camartinwv]

8. What a surprise...

[Grins]

9. We are exporting and financing terrorism.

Amerika! Fuck yeah!

[cadoman]

10. those nine cayman islands donations are amusing

Mitch McConnell, was that you?

[Cherokee100]

11. Back further

Wonder if it goes back even further, to Putin. Wouldn't be surprised.

[paleotn]

12. Spreading our stupid far and wide.