GoFundMe

Bootstrapped: Liberating Ourselves From the American Dream
by Alissa Quart
Published 14 Mar 2023

While the Affordable Care Act of the Obama administration had led to gains in insurance coverage overall, health-care costs continued to plague many Americans, and in 2017, eleven million Americans said they had had “catastrophic medical expenses.” GoFundMe, created in 2010 with lighter campaigns in mind, has become a major social service provider: it has gotten to the point where even the company’s founder complained publicly about GoFundMe’s new role: Robert Solomon, the CEO of GoFundMe, told CBS in 2019, “We weren’t ever set up to be a health-care company, and we still are not.” The public school system, Medicaid, SNAP, and . . . GoFundMe? It can seem as if these are the branches of today’s American welfare system. Fauntleroy’s was just one of the roughly 250,000 GoFundMe campaigns related to medical care in 2018, and as of September 2020 more than $625 million had been raised for these COVID-19 relief campaigns.

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These needs are so pervasive that GoFundMe even offered tips for how to squeeze what you can out of strangers and friends, advising “A great campaign story.” That story, the company wrote, “will outline your cause clearly, in a way that is engaging to read . . . all while speaking from the heart.” GoFundMe’s American dystopian mode includes commodifying our suffering for entertainment; we are forced into social performance, like actors, learning lines that are beggarly, with plaintive intonations, a veritable bazaar of pain. Another striking example was Annie Hanshew, who raised money on GoFundMe for school lunches.

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An even more repellent example of this was when a South Dakota hockey team and mortgage lender in 2021 threw a promotional event called “Dash for Cash,” where underpaid schoolteachers were encouraged to crawl and slither on a rink’s ice grabbing $5,000 worth of dollar bills off the cold surface and stuffing them in their clothes during an intermission. This filmed occasion went viral. And when the pandemic hit, Americans’ dependence on the dystopian social safety net only grew. Families used GoFundMe to underwrite their food costs while they stayed at coronavirus isolation hotels or to pay for Zoom funerals after COVID deaths. Others campaigned for essential workers, for beloved bookstores and restaurants set to close. A GoFundMe page raised over $50,000 for two Black FedEx drivers who claimed they were fired over a viral video confrontation with a customer in May 2020. “All we did was deliver his package; he was in the house at the time,” said one of the deliverymen in Leesburg, Georgia.

Death Glitch: How Techno-Solutionism Fails Us in This Life and Beyond
by Tamara Kneese
Published 14 Aug 2023

.: Duke University Press, 2009. Delfanti, Alessandro, and Bronwyn Frey. “Humanly Extended Automation or the Future of Work Seen through Amazon Patents.” Science, Technology, and Human Values 46, no. 3 (2020). doi.org/10.1177/0162243920943665. Del Valle, Rachel. “How GoFundMe’s New Pages Take a Sensitive Approach to Grief.” Fast Company, May 23, 2022. www.fastcompany.com/90749469/how-gofundmes-new-pages-take-a-sensitive-approach-to-grief. Denton, Nick. “Facebook: The Virginia Tech Shootings.” Valleywag, April 17, 2007. valleywag.com/tech/Facebook/the-virginia-tech-shootings-253055.php. Dubal, Veena. “Essentially Dispossessed.”

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The same entrenched hierarchies related to gender, race, class, sexuality, religion, and citizenship that affect the treatment of the dead—who is remembered and how, or where people are buried—are reflected in the care of digital remains. Some are mourned by millions on social media platforms. Others die without fame or recognition, and their families need to raise money for burials through crowdfunding campaigns on platforms like GoFundMe.22 Just as there are unmarked graves on New York’s Hart Island for the most marginalized in society and elaborate monuments to the wealthy and prominent dead, digital legacies do not look the same for everyone.23 Many platforms are designed by and for young and privileged white people in the Global North, so death is not typically a concern, let alone part of a platform’s initial features.

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Although digital estate–planning startups, along with the larger platform infrastructures they are tied to, are a departure from legacy institutions, they still assess and categorize individuals according to value and risk. Business lines of credit are often linked with precarious forms of gig or freelance work as opposed to full-time employment and are a way of racking up debt.25 Individuals who use GoFundMe, Venmo, Cash App, and other digital payment systems are subject to companies’ terms of service and algorithmic risk assessments rather than legacy institutions’ rules and regulations. In the same way that banks and insurers have long discriminated against marginalized communities, these seemingly more democratic payment infrastructures reproduce many of the same problems while making responsibility more difficult to pin down because of black box algorithms and confusing, ever changing terms of service.

New Power: How Power Works in Our Hyperconnected World--And How to Make It Work for You
by Jeremy Heimans and Henry Timms
Published 2 Apr 2018

“In July of 2013”: Eliza O’Neill’s GoFundMe page, “Saving Eliza,” July 2017. www.gofundme.com/ElizaONeill. “Hope is a nice word”: “This video will save a little girl’s life: #SavingEliza,” YouTube video, posted by “VonWong,” April 2, 2014, www.youtube.com. The video was the breakthrough: Ibid. Toward the end of 2015: Myriah Towner and Jill Reilly, “ ‘She’s Running Out of Time, but We Haven’t Run Out of Hope,’ ” Daily Mail, November 13, 2015. “Or as some would call it”: Jonathan Zittrain, Twitter post, January 19, 2016, 6:32 a.m. www.twitter.com/zittrain. GoFundMe has become: GoFundMe, “Top 10 Crowdfunding Sites,” July 2017. www.crowdfunding.com.

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Implication #2: Viral ≠ vital “In July of 2013, our 4-year-old daughter Eliza was diagnosed with a rare terminal genetic disease called Sanfilippo Syndrome-Type A,” the GoFundMe campaign began. “In one terrifying instant, we were told that we would have to watch her fade away before our eyes.” This bleak story came with a silver lining of hope. Researchers at the Nationwide Children’s Hospital had developed a breakthrough gene therapy treatment for Sanfilippo Syndrome, and, with just $2 million, could run a clinical trial. Eliza’s parents, Glenn and Cara O’Neill, set $2 million as the target for their campaign, more than anything GoFundMe had previously been used to raise. Initial progress was slow: they found it hard to get beyond their own social networks.

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“Save the panda bear” will always beat presenting the strategic plan to conserve the mountainous regions in central China where pandas live. As crowdfunding models proliferate in areas that used to be considered “public goods,” like education, a debate is brewing. Is crowdfunding for things like textbooks helping kids—or actually hurting public education by taking the heat off government? GoFundMe has become the biggest crowdfunding site in the United States in large part because it has become a way for people in distress to raise money for their own basic health care, something that is state-provided in many other countries. Crowdfunding may also act to reinforce privilege. Eliza O’Neill had a father savvy enough to get a viral video made about his daughter and a mother who, as a pediatrician, had the skills and know-how to navigate the health-care system.

Emotional Labor: The Invisible Work Shaping Our Lives and How to Claim Our Power
by Rose Hackman
Published 27 Mar 2023

Himmelstein et al., “Medical Bankruptcy: Still Common Despite the Affordable Care Act,” American Journal of Public Health 109, no. 3 (March 1, 2019): 431–33, https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2018.304901.   6.  Gina Martinez, “GoFundMe CEO: One-Third of Fundraisers Are for Medical Costs,” Time, updated January 30, 2019, accessed May 11, 2021, https://time.com/5516037/gofundme-medical-bills-one-third-ceo/.   7.  “Get Help with Medical Fundraising,” GoFundMe.com, accessed May 11, 2021, https://www.gofundme.com/start/medical-fundraising.   8.  Singapore may be a possible, arguable exception, but average health-care cost is still half of what it is in the United States, and citizens live four years longer.   9.  

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The effect of this factor alone on the lives of individuals well beyond health is chilling. Medical bills and hospital visits are still cited as catalyzing reasons in two-thirds of personal bankruptcy filings.5 Which is not to say Americans do not care. In 2019, the CEO of GoFundMe, Rob Solomon, said that one-third of the donations on his fundraising sites were related to campaigns to cover medical bills.6 According to its own website, GoFundMe claimed it hosted over 250,000 medical campaigns a year, raising more than $650 million.7 Americans are prepared to give individually, but the United States lags behind in reflecting a general, systemic empathy for all its people.

Women Talk Money: Breaking the Taboo
by Rebecca Walker
Published 15 Mar 2022

It must have been something like confidence or arrogance that got me to write the final line in that review, on crowdfunding: “… and I, unlike Amanda Palmer, will probably not do it again.” * * * And yet, I am doing it again: in 2018 it began, and more than halfway through 2019, it lived. Just the other night, another donation of $100 came in. This time, 784 people raised $57,865 dollars in twelve months on GoFundMe, plus $27,000 on YouCaring, before it merged with GoFundMe. This time, the text and many updates were written by my friend, the writer Janice Lee, who with the help of another friend urged me to do this again at a time when there seemed little hope of survival without. After four years of remission, what I thought was a simple Lyme relapse turned out to be severe mold toxicity and mycotoxin illness, which threatened my ability to breathe and even to get out of bed.

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Valerie is currently taking a multitude of medications and chemotherapy drugs as well as going through extreme physical and painful challenges now with around the clock, 24/7 care immediately needed, which is not covered by insurance. This is just part of the daily cost that is without a doubt a financial burden that could never be met alone. This GoFundMe initiative from Tony is to ensure she receives the best care possible.” In 2018, another childhood favorite of mine, Dawn Wells—Mary Ann of Gilligan’s Island—had a GoFundMe set up without her knowing. Her close friend set it up after she had broken her knee and was recovering from a major surgery where she suffered complications. After being rejected from an assisted living facility due to her large amounts of debt, and having lost her home, and being without any family support, her friend felt this was the only route.

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At that time in my life, I was really finding value in my therapy sessions and the ways I was unraveling all the mess in my head and learning skills to help me navigate the world. I would often think, I wish more Black women and girls could pursue their healing. I decided to create a fund-raiser to help pay down the cost of therapy sessions for Black women and girls, to make mental health care more accessible. I remember sitting in a Starbucks uptown developing the GoFundMe and thinking, This will be really cool, I hope my followers show up. And they did! In the first twenty-four hours, we raised ten thousand dollars, and over the next several months, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars in donations had been gathered. That fund-raiser was such an unexpected and incredible moment for me and my community.

Radicalized
by Cory Doctorow
Published 19 Mar 2019

He kept a list of suicide-prevention numbers handy, and he gave a measured, routine twenty dollars to each GoFundMe that was posted to the forum. Even at that modest contribution level, there was one month when the family GoFundMe bill crossed the $500 mark, and Lacey demanded to know what he was doing, and he told a half truth, saying it was for a friend’s cancer fund (but not how many friends’). Lacey couldn’t be angry over that, but she gave him a stern talking-to about their finances, and he agreed to cap the GoFundMe to $250/month, and she agreed to let him donate $300 in each election cycle to candidates who were pro-universal health care.

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Maybe the therapy wouldn’t have worked, but it was a chance, and a realistic one, not a desperate one, a real possibility that his daughter would have a mother and that he would have a wife and best friend to grow old with. He wanted to sell the house and borrow more money from friends and family and do a GoFundMe, but Lacey wouldn’t hear it. She pointed out that everything they—and all their immediate families—could spare wouldn’t touch that $1.5-mil ticket, and the only thing worse than a family losing its wife and mother was that same family losing its house and savings, too. She was much smarter and much calmer than Joe.

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But they say that the kind of surgery the doc wants to do, it’s experimental. They say it’s not covered. Guys, I’m 28 years old, a single dad. My parents haven’t given me a dime since I told them to go fuck themselves and moved out at 17. If my ex had a dollar to spare, it’d go to oxys, before the student-debt collectors could get it. I have a GoFundMe, but that only works if you know a million people or one millionaire. My kid is the greatest thing in the world, but everyone thinks that about their kid, and from all the evidence so far, I’m the only one who can see it. The thing is, my daughter Lisa is going to die. I mean, I can kid myself about it, but that’s what it’s about.

The Price of Life: In Search of What We're Worth and Who Decides
by Jenny Kleeman
Published 13 Mar 2024

The UK Solidarity Fund established after the 2017 London Bridge attack gave £75,000 to the next of kin of every person killed, regardless of where they were from, or what weapon took their life. There were also individual grassroots campaigns on JustGiving and GoFundMe for the families of victims. When Sara was still a missing person, one of Mark and Julie’s friends set up a GoFundMe that raised nearly AU$24,000 (£13,700) in a little over two weeks. Roy Larner, the Lion of London Bridge, may have got nothing from the CICA, but a single JustGiving page raised over £55,470 for him. When we come to look at philanthropy, you’ll see that many of the world’s richest donors look down on this kind of charitable giving; they see it as an inefficient way to make the world a better place.

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Hiding in Plain Sight: The Invention of Donald Trump and the Erosion of America
by Sarah Kendzior
Published 6 Apr 2020

Foreigners ask me why American citizens are not out in the streets protesting around the clock, like people did in Hong Kong and South Korea. The answer is that protest is more of a financial risk than a political one, and financial risks form the backbone of modern American terror. We cannot afford to overcome. We are too busy doing GoFundMe’s for the funerals of our friends whose previous GoFundMe failed to cover their health care. Much as the American Dream is dead, the methods of protest that it enabled are no longer effective—the leverage and fluidity of that era is gone. This does not mean that protest itself is dead, that standing up and fighting back is futile, but that the “iron triangles” about which Mueller warned have strangled our traditional means of self-protection.

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He was working over fifty hours per week but making wages so low that our family of four hovered near the poverty line. For over a year I would wake up shaking. The economic nightmare I had documented for years as a journalist had finally gotten me, like a monster I had tracked but failed to slay. I developed health problems that I never treated, contemplating the humiliation of a medical GoFundMe but then deciding to wait in case something worse happened—in postrecession Missouri, the odds of something worse happening were always high. We thought about moving, but the new economy had created an unequal economic geography. Expensive cities had better jobs, but the high cost of living made moving anywhere with our meager St.

Duty of Care: One NHS Doctor's Story of the Covid-19 Crisis
by Dr Dominic Pimenta
Published 2 Sep 2020

Roshana messages back – she’s keen to be involved in the charity and, already working on her childcare co-op, has set up a legal team and is far more advanced in that regard than us. I ask her if she wants to be a trustee, and she accepts. Everything is ready now, as we plan to launch the video and GoFundMe on Twitter the next day. At least that’s the plan. We catch up with Nej again late that night and work out a strategy for how we should present ourselves. “The best thing for NHS workers is for us to be supportive and to work with the government,” he says. I agree. “Yes, the ship is turning now anyway, and we are trying to all work together.

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Paul is the living embodiment of the pragmatic “can-do” attitude that we all need in the midst of an emergency. We discuss how we can work together, possibly with another group called Med Supply Drive. I suggest we set up a regular meeting with all the PPE groups and coordinate requests and resources. We aim to set up a call later in the week. That’s when I decide to check the charity’s GoFundMe page and see we’ve raised nearly £75,000. Several large donations are starting to give it real momentum. We could make such a difference here. Michelle messages me – she’s sceptical that industry can supply the volumes we will need, but it gets me to wondering what else we could be doing. Maybe we could make things?

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The idea of a future technology like this, capable of printing anything in an emergency, seems wacky and wonderful. I’ve seen some US companies already making 3D-printed respirators and snorkel mask conduits to create DIY masks. I wonder if anyone is doing the same in the UK. I tweet asking for some help. More good news comes during the day: GoFundMe are donating £5,000 to us to cover their platform costs, which they can’t waive, and the childcare co-op has already matched 200 families to childcare. Boris Johnson is due on at 8.30 p.m., so we have our now-regular board meeting snappily and sit down to watch the pre-recorded message. It’s an expected announcement, but hearing the emphatic “you now must stay at home” feels like a huge relief, enforcing the lockdown and closing schools, shops, and places of worship.

What Algorithms Want: Imagination in the Age of Computing
by Ed Finn
Published 10 Mar 2017

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Squeezed: Why Our Families Can't Afford America
by Alissa Quart
Published 25 Jun 2018

She had paid off her credit card debt by borrowing from family and having her loans for school deferred. What remained was a credit card balance of $2,000 or so. Finn, now eleven, was in a school for children with disabilities, paid for by his public school, and getting therapies, except for speech. Bolin recently raised money on GoFundMe to pay for horseback riding lessons for Finn. She was even off Xanax for her anxiety, she said, after she left the adjunct professor racket behind. She gave notice at the college where she had taught for so many years and was told, “We’re sorry to see you go”—but little else. 3 Extreme Day Care The Deep Cost of American Work In the garden of Dee’s Tots Child Care, amid the sunflowers, cornstalks, and plastic cars, a three-year-old girl with beads in her braids and a blond two-year-old boy were shimmying.

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Teachers who are chronically underpaid in places like Oklahoma are forced to rely on soup kitchens and food stamps, in addition to second jobs. In Mandan, North Dakota, I got in touch with Rebecca Maloney, an elementary school teacher and single mother with three kids who had to turn to the crowdfunding site GoFundMe just to pay for a $1,000 career development class she wanted to take at the local university. Another teacher in North Dakota I spoke to was heading off to clean houses after the final school bell in order to pay her rent. Thanks to the oil boom in that state since the early 2000s, the cost of living has risen unsustainably, while first-year teachers still make about $30,000 to $32,000 a year.

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New Year, Same Trash: Resolutions I Absolutely Did Not Keep
by Samantha Irby
Published 24 Jan 2017

Be a little bit nicer to myself. Getting better, day by day. Still cropping the droopy left side of my face out of my selfies, though. Responsible Adult Activities 55. Get an accountant. FOR WHAT MONEY? 56. Give more money to charity. I don’t know if this counts, but I gave a lot of money to people’s GoFundMe campaigns this year. 57. Establish some credit. Yo, I really did this! In less than one year I went from being a person with a credit file so thin I might not actually be a sentient human being to a person who leveraged one secured credit card into several real credit cards with laughably small limits!

Essential: How the Pandemic Transformed the Long Fight for Worker Justice
by Jamie K. McCallum
Published 15 Nov 2022

At that time, census data showed that approximately eight million families were behind on rent and faced the renewed possibility of losing their homes.87 In the end, Kenia was not saved by one of her rich patrons, the CARES Act, an eviction moratorium, or even the last-minute heroics of Cori Bush. One of her coworkers, who saw Kenia’s family sleeping in their car, started a GoFundMe page to support them. The modest goal of $800 quickly attracted almost $75,000 in donations. It was enough for her to rent a home for her family and pay for childcare so she could keep working. Finally, she caught a break. For the vast majority of low-wage workers, though, luck was in short supply.

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This emotional blackmail allowed us to imagine that what sociologist Mark Granovetter once called “the strength of weak ties” was enough to save us. And also to conveniently forget that the problems these groups were attending to should not have existed in the first place. From a social reproduction perspective, mutual aid cannot be the horizon of our caring capacity. Voluntarism is no substitute for government action, just as GoFundMe is not health insurance. We should instead develop a robust social system from the very principle of mutual aid. It is, after all, as Kropotkin argued, “the necessary foundation of everyday life.” A society built on a foundation of real mutual aid—all for one and one for all—cannot rely on goodwill.

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A joint study conducted by Yale, the University of Florida, and the University of Maryland found that transitioning to a single-payer system would save $450 billion each year, $2,400 in annual savings for the average American household.8 Other studies predict even higher savings, up to $600 billion in administrative costs and $200–$300 billion in savings on prescription drugs.9 While the savings estimates vary, a 2020 survey of twenty-two individual studies found a trend: they all predicted savings over the first several years of implementation—yes, even the study done by the Koch brothers.10 Other alternatives, like a public option or a Medicare buy-in, would leave an estimated one hundred million people at the whim of private companies, who would still be able to profit off the sick.11 GoFundMe is not an insurance policy, and we need a system that doesn’t force Americans to beg from friends and family to pay for routine care. In addition to money, a single-payer system would save something more valuable. Among peer nations, the US currently has the highest rate of preventable deaths.12 And a 2021 study by a nonpartisan consumer health advocacy organization found that a staggering one in three COVID-19 deaths, and 40 percent of infections, were attributable to gaps in health insurance.13 Research shows that by ensuring quality universal coverage, we could prevent an estimated sixty-eight thousand deaths a year.14 We need to tax the rich and spend the revenues on the public good.

Futureproof: 9 Rules for Humans in the Age of Automation
by Kevin Roose
Published 9 Mar 2021

And like a lot of businesses, it faced an uncertain future. But its community rallied behind it, starting a GoFundMe page and raising money to keep the store in business. Then, in May, George Floyd, an unarmed Black man, was killed by police in Minneapolis. Protests filled the streets of America’s cities, and orders started pouring into Marcus Books from all over the country from people who wanted to support its mission. It’s selling five times as many books as it was before the pandemic, and its GoFundMe donations ballooned to $260,000, more than enough to keep the store afloat. Marcus Books is not a high-tech operation.

Bottoms Up and the Devil Laughs
by Kerry Howley
Published 21 Mar 2023

laughed Reality. “Stop talking!” “Some reporters came into the house and took pictures, I hope she is okay with that,” said Billie. “Everyone wants to know, who is Reality?” “That name is cool,” said Angie. Billie started talking about all the support again—the neighbors and family and the GoFundMe a nice lady from Virginia had set up. “Alright Mom, we are gonna let you go,” said Reality. “I love you so much.” “I love you too. I love you too. And we will see each other tomorrow and um I hope we get to bring you home tomorrow night.” “That’d be awesome, girl,” offered Angie. “I love you so much.

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The defendant had “traveled to Mexico various times between August 2002 and August 2006,” though she did not point out that between 2002 and 2006, the defendant was a child; she had been there to get cheap braces. Reality perhaps was not herself well financed for travel, but “someone has set up a GoFundMe page for the defendant, which, as of last night, having been up for only two days, had collected $12,415.” Julian Assange himself, “international fugitive and founder of WikiLeaks, has praised the defendant via Twitter.” And there was the trip to Belize. “By herself for only three days,” said Solari.

Cashing Out: Win the Wealth Game by Walking Away
by Julien Saunders and Kiersten Saunders
Published 13 Jun 2022

We believe your ability to earn, save, and grow money is central to your quality of life. In fact, the inability to manage your money effectively can have a direct impact on your health and career choices. It can also affect your ability to maintain relationships, support family in need, or take breaks when you need them. Let’s be honest, haven’t we all witnessed an increase in GoFundMe campaigns in recent years because families don’t have adequate insurance or estate plans? Don’t we all know older workers who are staying on the job longer than they originally planned to because they don’t have enough retirement savings? Haven’t we all seen people work jobs they don’t enjoy despite being sick because they need the money?

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See also couples E eBay, 134, 135 ebooks, 136 e-commerce, 137 EconoMe Conference, 219 economy and the stock market, 230 education and degrees earned by Black women, 76 disadvantaged school systems, 3 insufficiency of, 172 80/20 thinking applied to expenses, 73 Eisenhower, Dwight, 32 eMarketer, 110 emergencies, 45, 119 emotions associated with money/income, 71–72 employment/careers assumptions about stability of, 62 attachment/addiction to, 146–47, 210 and authors’ honeymoon, 19–21 and automation threat, 125–26, 128 average time spent at, 32 barriers encountered at, 84, 85, 89, 91 and burnout, 31–33 and career potential for Black professionals, 24, 40 and childcare costs, 30 choosing your boss wisely, 101 climbing corporate ladders, 16 constant turbulence in, 27–28 conventional approach to, 226, 227 decoupling identity from, 95, 146–47, 231 and deferment of non-work related activities, 26 demands on time, 25–26 and dual-income households, 75–76 exchange of time/expertise for wages, 124–27, 138 exhaustion resulting from, 42–43 exit plan from, 76, 90–95, 107, 228 and fear of speaking out, 35, 41, 42 fifteen-year model of (see career, fifteen-year) income independent of, 140 inequality in, 10, 24, 31 as insufficient means of wealth building, 29, 32–33, 85 job hopping, 92, 93 and job loss, 138 knowing when to leave, 95–99 lack of advancement opportunities, 24, 28–29, 31 and leadership turnover, 27, 28 leaving toxic environments, 35 matching opportunities with, 156, 176 and meritocracy myth, 28 as optional, 65–68 (see also financial independence) and professional appearance, 107 pushed out of, 138, 227 and retirement accounts, 175–76 as rigged system, 106–7 skills developed in, 83, 87, 94 status/validation associated with, 101 stress associated with, 31–32, 97 structural/systemic barriers in, 29 as temporary, 96 and unfair hiring practices, 3 and vacation time, 26 value of, 96 white privilege in, 103–6 and work “family,” 29, 146 and work-life balance, 30, 31–33 See also work ethic empowerment, 43 enough, defining, 63–65 excellence, attitudes about, 15 expense ratios, 163–64 expenses applying 80/20 thinking to, 73 Big 3 (housing, transportation, food), 57, 59–60, 72 considering long-term losses/gains in, 73 and living below your means, 72 monitoring, 72 reducing, 22, 57, 58–59, 60, 72 See also consumerism and spending expertise, financial, 108–11 exposure, paradox of, 101–2 F Facebook, 216 Faith Among Black Americans (Pew Research Center), 36 family life ability to devote time to, 25, 35 prioritizing, 29–30 and “Raising a Family Index,” 30 supporting aging parents, 10, 70 See also couples Fast Spenders personality type characteristics of, 48–50 meaning of “freedom” for, 69 and Middle personality type, 50, 51, 61 Fat FIRE, 66–67 Fidelity, 167 fiduciary advisers, 149–54 51 percent rule, 200–201, 202, 207, 231 fighting about money as a constant, 198, 199 as dance (interactive pattern), 189 divorces resulting from, 199 See also conversations about money financial advisers declining services of, 153–54, 170–71 fees/compensation of, 151–54, 165, 171 fiduciary advisers compared to, 149–54 and index funds, 152–54 and insinuation anxiety, 171 role of, 153 self-interest of, 111, 153, 154 financial freedom about, 33–35 advantages of, 21 lifestyles associated with, 34–35 financial independence (FI) ability to pursue values, 68 avoiding comparison in, 224 and compound interest, 68, 140 inability of some to achieve, 48 as independent path, 234 partial execution of, 225–26, 234 sharing as a means of accelerating, 214 as third purpose of income, 56, 65–68 three levels of, 65–67 Financially Insecure personality type meaning of “freedom” for, 69 and Middle personality type, 50, 51 rising above, 233 struggle in lives of, 46–48 financial security, 58–59 financial services industry, 110 FIRE community, 204–24 accountability with, 222 as community of practice, 211–12 finding your people, 208, 209–10, 215–21 lack of diversity in, 209–10 online activity of, 216–17 online/in-person combinations, 220–21 and pandemic of 2020, 231–33 in-person interactions, 218–20 and podcasts, 217–18 purpose of, 221–22 relationships built in, 214–15 resources offered by, 211 rules and richuals for, 222–24 shared values of, 212, 214–15 sharing practiced in, 213–14 support found in, 210 teaching and learning in, 212 FIRE movement about, 22–23 acronym, 23 authors’ early encounters with, 22 and Black millionaires, 29 and CampFI, 37–38, 212, 219 extreme lifestyles of, 23–24 and Fat FIRE, 66–67 impact of, 234–35 and Jannese’s success story, 123 lack of diversity in, 209–10 mainstream awareness of, 234 Purple’s embrace of, 92 societal implications of, 212 and Vanguard, 167 Fiverr, 132 529 plans, 168, 205 flexibility as second purpose of income, 56, 60–65, 233–34 flipping goods, 134–35 food expenses, 57, 58, 59 Forbes, 63 401(k)s of authors, 154–55, 156–58, 168 and early withdrawal penalties, 114 fees associated with, 157, 165 marketing surrounding, 157–58 matching opportunities with, 156 maxing out accounts, 94, 168 for self-employed individuals, 176 underperformance of, 166 See also mutual funds 4 percent rule, 66–67 freedom actively taking, 71 failure to achieve, 69 as a feeling rather than dollar amount, 69–71 as fourth/ultimate purpose of income, 56, 56, 68–71 “The Freedom Dividend” program of Yang, 125–26 freelancing, 133, 147 friends and family discussing financial priorities with, 204–6, 207, 222 evolutionary drive to relate to, 209 and impostor syndrome, 209 sense of isolation from, 205–7 sharing relevant content with, 224 support from, 207, 208, 222–23 frugality embracing, 82 extreme lifestyles of, 234 and paying down debt, 78 Purple’s embrace of, 92, 93 sacrifices made for, 100, 200–201 See also consumerism and spending funding for business startups, 40 future plans, talking about, 193–94 G Gardner, Richard, 209 Gen Zers, 144 gig economy, 131–34 GoFundMe campaigns, rise in, 9 Great Depression (1929), 173 Great Recession (2008), 76, 131–34, 155, 173 grocery delivery companies, 131 gross domestic product (GDP), 230 Gumroad, 137 gurus of personal finance community, 155–56, 223 H handyman services, 131 happiness, adjusting expectations for, 200–201, 202, 231 hard work, 15.

Going Dark: The Secret Social Lives of Extremists
by Julia Ebner
Published 20 Feb 2020

‘If you believe the banks are part of the Jewish world conspiracy nonsense, well, then there are only two ways to make financial transactions: it’s either cash or it’s bitcoin.’ Against this background, it is unsurprising that American white nationalist Richard Spencer labelled bitcoin the ‘currency of the alt-right’ long before the bitcoin craze started. After prominent alt-right figures were banned from mainstream crowdsourcing platforms such as Patreon and GoFundMe, and blocked by online payment providers such as PayPal, Apple Pay and Google Pay, some switched to Hatreon. The alternative crowdsourcing platform was used to fund anti-democratic projects such as the maintenance of the world’s biggest neo-Nazi platforms Daily Stormer and Stormfront and hacking activities of the white supremacist Weev (see pp. 217–26).

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M. here, here b4bo here bin Laden, Osama here, here, here birthrates here, here Bissonnette, Alexandre here, here BitChute here bitcoin here, here, here Blissett, Luther here Bloc Identitaire here blockchain technology here bloggers here Blood & Honour here Bloom, Mia here Bloomberg, Michael here Böhmermann, Jan here Bowers, Robert here Breed Them Out here Breitbart here, here, here Breivik, Anders Behring here, here ‘Brentonettes’ here Brewer, Emmett here Brexit here, here Britain First here British National Party (BNP) here, here, here Broken Heart operation here Brown, Dan here Bubba Media here Bumble here, here Bundestag hack here, here BuzzFeed here C Star here, here ‘Call of Duty’ here, here Cambridge Analytica here, here Camus, Renaud here Carroll, Lewis here CBS here Channel programme here Charleston church shooting here Charlie Hebdo here Charlottesville rally here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here Chemnitz protests here, here Choudary, Anjem here Christchurch terror attacks here, here, here, here Christian identity here Chua, Amy here CIA here, here, here Clinton, Bill and Hillary here, here, here, here, here, here, here Cohn, Norman here Collett, Mark here Cologne rape crisis here Combat here, here Comey, James here Comvo here concentration camps here Conrad, Klaus here Conservative Political Action Conference here Constitution for the Ethno-State here Corem, Yochai here counter-extremism legislation here counter-trolling here Covington, Harold here Crash Override Network here Crusius, Patrick here cryptocurrencies here, here, here, here Cuevas, Joshua here Cyberbit here Cyborgology blog here ‘Daily Shoah’ podcast here Daily Stormer here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here Weev and here Damore, James here Dark Net here Data and Society Research Institute here Davey, Jacob here Dawkins, Richard here, here De La Rosa, Veronique here de Turris, Gianfranco here Dearden, Lizzie here deep fakes here, here DefCon here, here Der Spiegel here Deutsche Bahn here Diana, Princess of Wales here, here Die Linke here Die Rechte here ‘digital dualism’ here digital education here disinformation here, here, here Disney here Domestic Discipline here, here Donovan, Joan here Doomsday preppers here doubling here Dox Squad here, here doxxing here, here, here, here, here Doyle, Laura here, here Draugiem here DTube here Dugin, Alexander here Dunning–Kruger Effect here Dutch Leaks here Dylan, Bob here Earnest, John here 8chan here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here EKRE (Estonian fascist party) here El Paso shooting here Element AI here Emanuel, Rahm here encryption and steganography here Encyclopedia Dramatica here English Defence League here, here, here, here Enoch, Mike here environmentalism here, here ethno-pluralism here, here ‘Eurabia’ here, here ‘European Israel’ here European National here European Parliament elections here European Spring here Evola, Julius here executions here Facebook friends here fashions and lifestyles here, here Fawcett, Farah here Faye, Guillaume here FBI here, here, here, here, here Fearless Democracy here, here FedEx here Feldman, Matthew here Ferdinand II, King of Aragon here Fiamengo, Janice here Fields, James Alex here Fight Club here Finkelstein, Robert here Finsbury Mosque attack here, here, here Fisher, Robert here Foley, James here Follin, Marcus here football hooligans here, here Football Lads Alliance (FLA) here For Britain party here Fortnite here 4chan here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here FPÖ (Austrian Freedom Party) here, here, here, here, here Frankfurt School here Fransen, Jayda here Fraternal Order of Alt-Knights here Freedom Fighters, The here freedom of speech here, here, here, here F-Secure here FSN TV here Gab here, here, here, here, here, here Gamergate controversy here GamerGate Veterans here gamification here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here Ganser, Daniele here Gates of Vienna here Gateway Pundit here Gawker here GCHQ here GE here GellerReport here Generation Identity (GI) here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here Generation Islam here genetic testing here, here German elections here, here German Institute on Radicalization and De-Radicalization Studies here German National Cyber Defence Centre here Gervais, Ricky here Ghost Security here Giesea, Jeff here Gigih Rahmat Dewa here Gionet, Tim here gladiators here Global Cabal of the New World Order here global financial crisis here, here global warming here GNAA here Goatse Security here GOBBLES here Goebbels, Joseph here GoFundMe here Goldy, Faith here Goodhart, David here ‘Google’s Ideological Echo Chamber’ here Gorbachev, Mikhail here Graham, Senator Lindsey here Gratipay here Great Awakening here, here Great Replacement theory here, here, here, here, here ‘Grievance Studies’ here grooming gangs here, here Guardian here, here H., Daniel here Habeck, Robert here HackerOne here hackers and hacking here ‘capture the flag’ operations here, here denial of service operations here ethical hacking here memory-corruption operations here political hacking here ‘qwning’ here SQL injections here techniques here Halle shooting here Hamas here, here Hanks, Tom here Happn here Harris, DeAndre here ‘hashtag stuffing’ here Hate Library here HateAid here, here Hatreon here, here, here Heidegger, Martin here Heise, Thorsten here, here Hensel, Gerald here, here Herzliya International Institute for Counter-Terrorism here Heyer, Heather here, here, here Himmler, Heinrich here Hintsteiner, Edwin here Histiaeus here Hitler, Adolf here, here, here, here, here Mein Kampf here, here Hitler salutes here, here, here, here Hitler Youth here HIV here Hizb ut-Tahrir here, here, here Höcker, Karl-Friedrich here Hofstadter, Richard here Hollywood here Holocaust here Holocaust denial here, here, here, here, here Holy War Hackers Team here Home Office here homophobia here, here, here Hooton Plan here Hoover Dam here Hope Not Hate here, here, here Horgan, John here Horowitz Foundation here Hot or Not here House of Saud here Huda, Noor here human trafficking here, here Hussein, Saddam here, here Hutchins, Marcus here Hyppönen, Mikko here Identity Evropa here, here iFrames here Illuminati here Incels (Involuntary Celibacy) here, here Independent here Inkster, Nigel here Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD) here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here Intelius here International Business Times here International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation (ICSR) here International Federation of Journalists here International Holocaust Memorial Day here International Institute for Strategic Studies here Internet Research Agency (IRA) here iPads here iPhones here iProphet here Iranian revolution here Isabella I, Queen of Castile here ISIS here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here hackers and here, here, here, here, here Islamophobia here, here, here, here, here, here, here Tommy Robinson and here, here see also Finsbury Mosque attack Israel here, here, here, here, here Israel Defense Forces here, here Jackson, Michael here jahiliyya here Jakarta attacks here Jamaah Ansharud Daulah (JAD) here Japanese anime here Jemaah Islamiyah here Jesus Christ here Jewish numerology here Jews here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here see also anti-Semitism; ZOG JFG World here jihadi brides here, here JihadWatch here Jobs, Steve here Johnson, Boris here Jones, Alex here Jones, Ron here Junge Freiheit here Jurgenson, Nathan here JustPasteIt here Kafka, Franz here Kampf der Niebelungen here, here Kapustin, Denis ‘Nikitin’ here Kassam, Raheem here Kellogg’s here Kennedy, John F. here, here Kennedy family here Kessler, Jason here, here Khomeini, Ayataollah here Kim Jong-un here Kohl, Helmut here Köhler, Daniel here Kronen Zeitung here Kronos banking Trojan here Ku Klux Klan here, here Küssel, Gottfried here Lane, David here Le Loop here Le Pen, Marine here LeBretton, Matthew here Lebron, Michael here Lee, Robert E. here Li, Sean here Li family here Libyan Fighting Group here LifeOfWat here Lifton, Robert here Littman, Gisele here live action role play (LARP) here, here, here, here, here, here lobbying here Lokteff, Lana here loneliness here, here, here, here, here, here, here Lorraine, DeAnna here Lügenpresse here McDonald’s here McInnes, Gavin here McMahon, Ed here Macron, Emmanuel here, here, here, here MAGA (Make America Great Again) here ‘mainstream media’ here, here, here ‘Millennium Dawn’ here Manosphere here, here, here March for Life here Maria Theresa statue here, here Marighella, Carlos here Marina Bay Sands Hotel (Singapore) here Marx, Karl here Das Kapital here Masculine Development here Mason, James here MAtR (Men Among the Ruins) here, here Matrix, The here, here, here, here May, Theresa here, here, here Meechan, Mark here Meme Warfare here memes here, here, here, here and terrorist attacks here Men’s Rights Activists (MRA) here Menlo Park here Mercer Family Foundation here Merkel, Angela here, here, here, here MGTOW (Men Going Their Own Way) here, here, here MI6, 158, 164 migration here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here see also refugees millenarianism here Millennial Woes here millennials here Minassian, Alek here Mindanao here Minds here, here misogyny here, here, here, here, here see also Incels mixed martial arts (MMA) here, here, here, here Morgan, Nicky here Mounk, Yascha here Movement, The here Mueller, Robert here, here Muhammad, Prophet here, here, here mujahidat here Mulhall, Joe here MuslimCrypt here MuslimTec here, here Mussolini, Benito here Naim, Bahrun here, here Nance, Malcolm here Nasher App here National Action here National Bolshevism here National Democratic Party (NPD) here, here, here, here National Health Service (NHS) here National Policy Institute here, here National Socialism group here National Socialist Movement here National Socialist Underground here NATO DFR Lab here Naturalnews here Nawaz, Maajid here Nazi symbols here, here, here, here, here, here, here see also Hitler salutes; swastikas Nazi women here N-count here Neiwert, David here Nero, Emperor here Netflix here Network Contagion Research Institute here NetzDG legislation here, here Neumann, Peter here New Balance shoes here New York Times here News Corp here Newsnight here Nietzsche, Friedrich here, here Nikolai Alexander, Supreme Commander here, here, here, here, here, here 9/11 attacks here, here ‘nipsters’ here, here No Agenda here Northwest Front (NWF) here, here Nouvelle Droite here, here NPC meme here NSDAP here, here, here Obama, Barack and Michelle here, here, here, here, here Omas gegen Rechts here online harassment, gender and here OpenAI here open-source intelligence (OSINT) here, here Operation Name and Shame here Orbán, Viktor here, here organised crime here Orwell, George here, here Osborne, Darren here, here Oxford Internet Institute here Page, Larry here Panofsky, Aaron here Panorama here Parkland high-school shooting here Patreon here, here, here, here Patriot Peer here, here PayPal here PeopleLookup here Periscope here Peterson, Jordan here Pettibone, Brittany here, here, here Pew Research Center here, here PewDiePie here PewTube here Phillips, Whitney here Photofeeler here Phrack High Council here Pink Floyd here Pipl here Pittsburgh synagogue shooting here Pizzagate here Podesta, John here, here political propaganda here Popper, Karl here populist politicians here pornography here, here Poway synagogue shooting here, here Pozner, Lenny here Presley, Elvis here Prideaux, Sue here Prince Albert Police here Pro Chemnitz here ‘pseudo-conservatives’ here Putin, Vladimir here Q Britannia here QAnon here, here, here, here Quebec mosque shooting here Quilliam Foundation here, here, here Quinn, Zoë here Quran here racist slurs (n-word) here Radio 3Fourteen here Radix Journal here Rafiq, Haras here Ramakrishna, Kumar here RAND Corporation here Rasmussen, Tore here, here, here, here Raymond, Jolynn here Rebel Media here, here, here Reconquista Germanica here, here, here, here, here, here, here Reconquista Internet here Red Pill Women here, here, here, here, here Reddit here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here redpilling here, here, here, here refugees here, here, here, here, here Relotius, Claas here ‘Remove Kebab’ here Renault here Revolution Chemnitz here Rigby, Lee here Right Wing Terror Center here Right Wing United (RWU) here RMV (Relationship Market Value) here Robertson, Caolan here Robinson, Tommy here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here Rockefeller family here Rodger, Elliot here Roof, Dylann here, here Rosenberg, Alfred here Rothschilds here, here Rowley, Mark here Roy, Donald F. here Royal Family here Russia Today here, here S., Johannes here St Kilda Beach meeting here Salafi Media here Saltman, Erin here Salvini, Matteo here Sampson, Chris here, here Sandy Hook school shooting here Sargon of Akkad, see Benjamin, Carl Schild & Schwert rock festival (Ostritz) here, here, here Schilling, Curt here Schlessinger, Laura C. here Scholz & Friends here SchoolDesk here Schröder, Patrick here Sellner, Martin here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here Serrano, Francisco here ‘sexual economics’ here SGT Report here Shodan here, here Siege-posting here Sleeping Giants here SMV (Sexual Market Value) here, here, here Social Justice Warriors (SJW) here, here Solahütte here Soros, George here, here Sotloff, Steven here Southern, Lauren here Southfront here Spencer, Richard here, here, here, here, here, here Spiegel TV here spoofing technology here Sputnik here, here SS here, here Stadtwerke Borken here Star Wars here Steinmeier, Frank-Walter here Stewart, Ayla here STFU (Shut the Fuck Up) here Stormfront here, here, here Strache, H.

Sandy Hook: An American Tragedy and the Battle for Truth
by Elizabeth Williamson
Published 8 Mar 2022

“I’m gonna go listen to what Trump has to say about them teaching critical race theory,” Watt said. “I’m so glad I have all that stuff in my attic. I might need that!” Two months later, Jim’s body was found in his storage-shed home. He had died of natural causes, likely related to his alcoholism. His children took up a GoFundMe collection to cremate him. The state would have paid for it but would have kept and disposed of his ashes. I contributed $35. “Our secret,” Watt said when she heard about it. No, I told her, repelled at the idea. My donation was to her children. I felt terrible for them. * * * — Sandy Hook had given Watt a new cause; and social media, a global audience.

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He sent back a link to a dorky YouTube take on Clint Eastwood in Dirty Harry, with the caption “Go ahead. Make my day.” He never heard back. The blizzard of takedown notices put Lenny and HONR on the tech companies’ radar. YouTube eventually opened a back channel for Lenny to report content directly. HONR got GoFundMe and PayPal to nuke Halbig’s accounts. Ever the victim, Halbig sent a hyperventilating email to Infowars: “Please tell Alex that they now have shut down my last place people could donate to our legal funds . . . I am called a FRAUD, LIAR and conducting illegal activities . . . Please help me.” Lenny had complained about Halbig’s fundraising to the Florida attorney general.

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See also specific family members, including  Pozner, Lenny Fancelli, Julie Jenkins, 432 Farid, Hany, 209–10, 422 Farrar, Kyle, 316, 317–18, 319, 322, 323 Farrar & Ball, 310, 314, 316–18, 324, 401, 412, 413 Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), 170–71, 220, 251, 252 Feinberg, Kenneth R., 52–53 Feinstein, Emily, 401 Fellowship of the Minds (blog), 106 Fetzer, James, 105–6, 115, 137, 138, 139, 147, 175–76, 193, 201, 202–3, 391–410, 412 First Amendment protections, 204–10, 314, 322, 350, 370–71, 423 First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, Texas, 326–27 Fontaine, Marcel, 309 Ford, Julian, 28 Forsman, Jennifer, 167–68, 172 Forward, 143–44 Fox News, 253, 286 Frank, Monte, 186, 188–90, 192, 200 Fredericks, Grant, 119–20 freedom of speech, 204–10, 333–36, 384–85, 428 Free Speech Systems, 271, 308, 320, 346 Friesen, Dan, 83–84, 90, 196, 294, 295, 432 G Gamble, Maya Guerra, 430 Gaston, Dan, 275 Gates, Bill, 371 Gay, Josephine, 235 Gay, Michele, 235, 338 Gentzkow, Matthew, 241 Gersh, Tanya, 346–47 Giuliani, Rudy, 433 globalism/globalists, 71, 72, 79, 115, 214, 258, 259, 261, 298 Gnandt, Greg, 8 Goebbels, Paul Joseph, 74 GoFundMe, 200 Goldman, Adam, 248 Google, 193, 206, 320, 374 Graham, Ginnie, 130–31, 132 Gravois, John, 397 “great replacement theory,” 74 Greene, Marjorie Taylor, 251 Grenier, Richard, 395 Gucciardi, Anthony, 268, 362 Gun Owners of America, 89 gun policy debate: and Congressional testimony of Sandy Hook families, 288–89; groundswell against gun violence, 308; and gun control legislation, 88, 89; and gun lobby, 88, 89; and Heslin, 288–90; Jones’s speculation about, 72, 73, 413–14; Lafferty’s work in, 329–30; and Obama administration, 153; and Parkland school shooting (2018), 308; and reactions to Sandy Hook massacre, 89; Ryan’s perspective on, 339; and universal background checks, 88; and Watt, 135 H Haas, Lori, 86 Halbig, Erik, 182–83 Halbig, Wolfgang: background of, 182–83; and Clinton, 274; donations solicited by, 164, 170; and Fetzer, 176; Frank on, 192; harrassment of Sandy Hook families, 183, 382; HONR’s efforts to combat, 193, 200; on identity of massacre survivor, 185, 186, 200, 382; inability to acknowledge errors, 427; on Infowars, 100–101, 138, 297; Johnson’s debate with, 177–80; lawsuit against, 410; in Newtown, 147–48, 184, 186–88; Pozner’s efforts to inform, 392; Pozner’s lawsuit against, 200, 302–4; and Pozner’s lawsuit against Fetzer, 404, 408–9, 410; profiting from conspiracy content, 180; public records campaign of, 181, 185–90; Sandy Hook families’ lawsuit against, 328, 332, 382; “Sandy Hook Justice” website, 100–101, 148; threats to dig up victims’ graves, 143; and Watt, 137 Hamman, Buckley, 210, 266 Hammond, Natalie, 5 Hannity, Sean, 253 Hao, Karen, 341–42 Harmony Square online game, 423–24 Hassinger, Cristina, 51–52 Hawley, Josh, 386–87, 434 Henson, Weldon, 268 Heslin, Neil: author’s tour of Newtown with, 7–8, 10, 26, 31–32; and conspiracy theorists, 287, 289, 372; on cradling Jesse’s body, 22–23, 284–85, 287, 296–97, 299, 310, 311, 334; and death of Jesse, 18; engagement of, 435–37; on Fairfield State Hospital, 12; and funeral for Jesse, 23, 24–26; grief of, 9–10, 287–88; and gun violence, 288–90; and immediate aftermath of massacre, 14–15, 17, 22; and Infowars, 287, 290, 296–97, 299, 301, 310, 414; and Jesse’s room, 372, 436–37; and Kelly’s interview with Jones, 283, 284–85, 287; Lanza’s father’s meeting with, 29–31; last day with Jesse, 13–14; lawsuit against Jones, 307, 309–12, 320, 325, 340, 369, 412, 429; search for meaning following massacre, 11; testifying before Congress, 288–89; on Trump, 437–38 Hill, Jessica, 33–34 Hill, Mark, 304 Hirono, Mazie K., 385–86 History on Trial (Lipstadt), 191 Hochsprung, Dawn Lafferty, 4–5, 51, 62, 63, 257, 328 Hockley, Dylan, 5 Hofstadter, Richard, 151 Hogg, David, 327, 363 Holder, Eric, 105 Holocaust deniers, 189, 190–92, 342–43, 344 HONR website: and Amazon, 201; combating hoaxers, 193, 194; and copyright/takedown notices, 199–200, 224, 239, 290, 304–6; establishment of, 171–72; and Infowars, 197; and Johnson, 175; mission of, 172, 444–45; and Mollygirl (troll), 229, 230; and Pozner’s lawsuit against Jones, 351; volunteers staffing, 173, 193 Hunt, Brendan, 103–4 I immigration rhetoric, 261–62 Independent Media Solidarity, 177, 226–27 Infowars: audience of, 91, 216, 239; and author’s interview with Jones, 366–67; and Bidondi, 185–86; and Branch Davidians, 75; and Capital insurrection of January 6, 2021, 433; and Chobani lawsuit, 278–80, 320; “citizen journalists” of, 81; claims massacre was a hoax, 83–84, 89–90, 111, 118, 120–22, 196, 198, 264–65, 311–12, 413–14; on Clinton, 243; college professors on, 113–15; content procured by, 196–97; on Cooper’s interview with Veronique, 118–20, 157, 196, 310, 311; and copyright/takedown notices, 197–98, 199, 200, 277, 290, 297–99; on coronavirus pandemic, 415; and day of Sandy Hook massacre, 71–72, 74, 82; deplatforming of, 374–75, 377, 379, 380; and Facebook, 342, 343, 345; founding of, 75–76, 358; on gun policy, 90; and Halbig, 101, 147, 180; headquarters of, 72, 266–67, 366–67; on Heslin’s last moments with Jesse’s body, 287, 290, 296–97, 299, 301, 310, 311, 334, 414; and Hogg, 327; internet traffic shaped by, 77–78, 197; and Johnson-Halbig debate, 177–80; Jones’s success with, 75–81; Kelly’s involvement in, 358–59; Lafferty targeted by, 330; lawsuits against, 309, 311, 313–14, 345–46, 347–52; in Newtown, 147–48, 184; and NSA Utah Data Center, 268–69; Obama as target of, 82–83; Owens’s employment with, 260–61, 265–66, 267–71, 291–92, 293–94; and Pakistan-massacre conspiracy, 196–97, 277, 302; and Parker’s press conference, 95–98, 118, 196, 198, 238–39, 267–68; and Parkland school shooting (2018), 308–9, 313–14; and Pizzagate video, 243, 249–50, 254–56, 277, 320; and Pozner, 77, 81, 121–22, 198–99; and presidential election of 2016, 271–73; and September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, 78; and Shroyer, 286, 287, 290–97; and social media platforms, 345; store and product lines, 78–79, 81, 90, 201, 268, 307, 317, 360, 361, 370, 433; Tracy’s interview on, 111, 113–15; traffic of, 90, 91, 258, 265, 309; and Trump, 212–17; and Watson, 113–15; and We Need to Talk filmmakers, 177, 225; work culture of, 266–67, 270–71; and WWE model, 81 Inside the NRA (Powell), 88, 89 Instagram, 250 internet: bad actors on, 207–10; disinformation/misinformation of, 423–24; and First Amendment protections, 206–10; harm done by, 210; as medium of conspiracy theories, 160, 416, 417; search engines on, 193; and Section 230 protections, 205, 207, 422.

War for Eternity: Inside Bannon's Far-Right Circle of Global Power Brokers
by Benjamin R. Teitelbaum
Published 14 May 2020

People like Steve. 21 The Reckoning ON JULY 25, 2019, I TRAVELED TO A CORDONED-OFF compound just west of El Paso where Texas, New Mexico, and Mexico meet. It is here where the We Build the Wall organization managed to construct nearly a mile of border wall on privately owned land with private money—over $20 million was raised on GoFundMe. The structure was impressive. Diamond-shaped posts of eighty-year steel stretching about twenty feet up in the air, buried in seven feet of cement that extend a considerable distance off on the north side, allowing for patrol vehicles to drive alongside and discouraging simple tunneling. The path of the wall shot up the steppe side of a mountain.

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On April 16, 2019, Michael Bagley had laundered $50,000 in cash that he had received from two men with whom he had been meeting in and around his hometown of Alexandria, Virginia. The funds they gave to him, he understood, was drug money from Mexican cartels, and if he managed to securely transfer it into a safe American bank account, he could keep 10 percent. Bagley did just that, using a complicated scheme involving crowdfunding sites like GoFundMe. After completing that task, he was given a larger sum to launder, $100,000, on May 13. Cleared again—Bagley was good at this. On June 10, he and one of the men met again for an additional handoff of $101,000. These were all smaller installments of the larger sum they had agreed upon: $20 million.

The Empowered Empath: A Simple Guide on Setting Boundaries, Controlling Your Emotions, and Making Life Easier
by Judy Dyer
Published 15 Apr 2019

He has given out more than 2,000 lunches in bags that he writes handwritten messages of encouragement on. Liam believes that he is spreading a message of joy and hope to the less fortunate, and he hopes that it will ignite something in them to achieve a better life. Liam’s father, Scott raised $44,000 through a GoFundMe page to buy a food truck so that Liam can expand his operation and travel across Boston to give out free lunches. 450 Students Serenade Dying Teacher After being diagnosed with cancer, more than 450 students from the Christ Presbyterian Academy in Nashville gathered outside his home to sing Christian songs of worship.

Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope
by Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl Wudunn
Published 14 Jan 2020

A company offered jobs to Tani’s parents. A couple of private schools offered full scholarships. Lawyers offered immigration advice. President Bill Clinton invited Tani and his family to visit him in his Harlem office, so the boy took the morning off from school for that. And hundreds of readers contributed to a GoFundMe page that quickly raised more than $250,000 for Tani and his family. A few days later, we helped the Adewumis move into their new home, a pleasant two-bedroom apartment in Manhattan, not far from his school. A generous reader had paid the rent for the first year, and another family had furnished it.

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Humans are moved to help individuals, not to address structural problems. But the solution to child homelessness is not winning the state chess championship. That’s not scalable. So what the Adewumis did next was particularly meaningful. They decided not to touch the quarter-million dollars in the GoFundMe account, aside from 10 percent that they would give to their church as a tithe. The rest went into a new Tanitoluwa Adewumi Foundation to be used to help struggling immigrants like the ones they had been a week earlier. “God has already blessed me,” Tani’s dad explained. “I want to release my blessing to others.”

How I Built This: The Unexpected Paths to Success From the World's Most Inspiring Entrepreneurs
by Guy Raz
Published 14 Sep 2020

In this way, each person in your inner circle is both a potential resource in and of themselves and also a launching pad to someone in the circle one step removed. In theory, you can move like this out through the concentric circles almost infinitely. In fact, that’s kind of how crowdfunding sites like Kickstarter, Indiegogo, and GoFundMe tend to work. They’re word-of-mouth mechanisms designed to help innovators and creators just like you get started, by reaching the fifth, sixth, or seventh circle of people whom you could never reasonably expect to know or meet, but whose capital you can use to actually produce the thing you are trying to sell.

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See co-founders; leadership; specific names Founder’s Dilemma, The (Wasserman), 243 Foursquare, 55, 153, 212 Foxconn, 220 Framebridge, 270 Frost, Robert, 137–38, 146 FUBU, 24–27 funding the business, 74–83 access to money, 79–83 cost of money, 75–76 Five Guys, 130 from friends and family, 76–78, 139–40 FUBU and OPM, 74–75 Instagram, 119 professional money, 147–58 from savings, 52 Shopify, 108–9 See also bootstrapping G Gaither, Bruce, 10, 11 Galifianakis, Zach, 117 Game Neverending, 187, 190 Gates, Bill, 18, 48 Gebbia, Joe, 53–61, 71, 142, 144 General Catalyst, 151 Ghirardelli, Domingo, 215 Ghirardelli Company, 215 Gilboa, Dave, 123, 256 Glitch, 187–88, 190 GNC, 102–3 GoFundMe, 81 “Go Huskers!” email, 97–98, 103 gold rush boom, 215–16 Good Hair (film), 157 Google, 241 Gould, Jay, 221 Gould, Stephen Jay, 180 GQ, 123, 256 gradualists vs. punctualists, 180 Graham, Paul, 42–43, 50, 59, 72, 142, 145 Green, John, 181 Greenfield, Jerry, 33, 40, 106, 112 Griffin-Black, Susan, 228–31 growth organic growth, 9, 60–61, 184, 244 scaling a business, 186, 200–201, 212 self-knowledge and, 233 See also iterations; professional money H Haney, Tyler, 151–52 Hangover, The (film), 117–18, 128 Hart, Michael, 237, 241 Harvard Business Review, 243–52 Hastings, Reed, 203–5, 208 Headspace, 198–201 Heifetz, Ronald, 145 Helms, Ed, 117 Hemingway, Ernest, 180 hero’s journey, xii, 266 Hetrick, Randy buzz for product, 120–22, 124 education, 270 on patent protection, 162, 165 mentioned, xiv Higginbotham, Chris, 249 hiring and screening, 203–5, 208–9, 263 Hirshberg, Gary, 138–43, 144, 145–46, 166, 184 Hoffman, Reid Airbnb and, 72 on entrepreneurship, 23 on location, 110 on scaling a business, 205, 208 on word of mouth marketing, 127 mentioned, 27, 111, 203 Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 45–46 Hoover, 161 Horowitz, Ben, 65, 70, 73, 153 Houston, Drew, 111 How I Built This (podcast) editing of, 273 first interview for, 265–66 Herb Kelleher interview, 220 luck vs. hard work, 267 self-knowledge, 232 taking the leap to, xiv as therapy, 273–74 word of mouth, 127, 132–34 mentioned, ix–xii Hsieh, Tony, 236 Huffman, Steve, 225–28, 230 Hugo, Victor, 12 Hyman, Jenn, 148–50, 156, 194–96, 270 I IBM, 217, 219 iConic conference, 27, 28 ideas, 3–12 about money, 194 for Airbnb, 53–55 for Angie’s BOOMCHICKAPOP, 248 for Bumble, 67 vs. business work, 187, 190 Daymond John on, 24–25 good vs. bad, 153 for Headspace, 198–99 How I Built This, xiv James Dyson on, 160 Jim Koch and, 15–16 key to, 8 origin of, 3–4 partnership and, 45–46 research and, 32–33 shelf life of, 87 for Stacy’s Pita Chips, 181–82 time commitment in, 10–11 IDEA World Convention, 120, 121 improvements.

Cheap Land Colorado: Off-Gridders at America's Edge
by Ted Conover
Published 1 Nov 2022

Marshall would later tell Alamosa police officers that the truck had hit his wife, a claim that did not appear to be supported by the video. Pruitt was transported to hospitals in Colorado Springs and Denver, where he spent weeks in a coma. Later, with the bullet still in his skull, he returned to the valley to recuperate with his sister. A GoFundMe account set up for him raised more than $150,000. James Marshall was arrested and charged with attempted murder. He pleaded guilty to a third-degree felony and was sentenced to eleven years in prison. To me, Marshall’s actions fell wide of the usual narrative—the criminal defense attorneys I knew were not pistol packers.

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See also specific types Duarte, Angelo, 21–24, 23, 35, 61–65, 127, 211, 226 Duarte, Geneva, 21–24, 35–39, 61–65, 127, 194, 209–11, 255 Duarte, Lenora, 63–64 Duarte, Maggie, 127 Duarte, Wendy, 22, 39, 65 Duck Dynasty (TV show), 146 Durango, Colorado, 228 Dust Bowl, 144 E Eads, Colorado, 177 eagles, 229 earthquake, 98 Earthship Biotecture, 69–70, 178 Eastwood, Clint, 222 eBay, 130–31, 148 Edwards, Vince, 32–33, 87 electricity, 41, 130 Elfin hemp cloth, 86 elk, 98, 176, 202–3 Elko, Nevada, 123–24 Ellis, Michael A., 266n Espinosa, Felipe, 114, 190–91 Espinosa, Vivián, 114, 190–91 Espinoza, Andrew, 88 Espinoza, Cano, 191 Estrada, Gilbert, 62–64 Everglades, 132 Evicted (Desmond), 240n F Facebook, 32, 73, 79, 101, 147, 157–58, 161, 176, 212, 219–23, 227, 229, 245 Fairplay, Colorado, 11–12 Family Dollar store, 14, 98, 160 farming, 116–19, 118, 121, 252–53, 265n Farmington, New Mexico, 74 farmworkers, 14 Faulkner, William, 76 Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), 91, 194 Federal Trade Commission (FTC), 128–30, 265n Fertile Lands of Colorado and Northern New Mexico (pamphlet), 117–19, 118 fetal alcohol syndrome, 80 Field & Stream, 49, 126 fighting culture, 62 5280 magazine, 12, 113 Fletcher, Robert “Bob,” 268n Florida, 70, 119, 122, 170 Floyd, George, 219–23, 226–27 flu, 218, 223 food banks, 5, 25, 219 food stamps, 240n Forbes, Malcolm S., 119n, 221 Fort Garland, Colorado, 10, 22, 81, 85, 113–14, 190–91, 221 Foster, Bob, 76–77 Foster, Lisa, 76–80 Foster, Torrey Marie, 191–92, 192 foster care, 208 Fox News, 223 Front Range, 259, 269n Frost, Robert, 248 frostbite, 91, 100 Fullerton, California, 98 G Garcia, Reyes, 191, 234 gay people, 18–19, 83 generators, 41–42, 44, 105 genízaros (Indigenous slaves), 100 Geno (Sam’s friend), 78 George (owner of cockatoo), 60 German POWs internment camp, 99–100 Gibson’s store, 161 Gilpin, William, 114, 116, 260 Glorieta Pass, 109 goats, 36, 42, 56–57, 71, 72, 148, 201 GoFundMe, 222 gold, 113, 146, 148, 159, 200, 203–5, 204 Gonzales, Charles Moises, 193–94, 197 Gonzales, Michael, 193 Google Maps, 142 Grace (Troy’s wife). See Nielsen, Grace Grand Junction, Colorado, 123, 228 Grand Lake, Colorado, 260 grazing rights, 95, 99, 120 Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve, 9–11, 10 Greeley, Colorado, 44, 156, 157 Green Berets, 140 Greenberg, Richard, 124 Greene, Susan, 220–22 green tech, 69–70 Gregerson, Linda, 9 Grinspoon, David, 234–35 Griswold, P.R., 120 G-R-P Corporation, 124–29, 125 Gruber, Frank, 36, 40–42, 44, 45, 57–60, 73–76, 81–83, 94–95, 97, 101–5, 104, 146, 155–57, 166, 170, 206–8, 215–16, 227, 229, 237–38, 257–58, 264n Gruber, Kanyon, 41, 60, 71, 73, 80, 142, 207–8 Gruber, Meadoux, 41, 57, 59–60, 71–73, 72, 80–81, 83, 95–96, 208, 215–16, 257 Gruber, Raven, 36, 41, 57, 229 Gruber, Saphire, 41, 71 Gruber, Stacy, 36, 40–45, 45, 56–60, 71, 73–76, 79, 81, 95, 101, 141, 144–47, 155–57, 166, 186, 188, 206–8, 215, 229, 238–40, 257, 264n Gruber, Trinity, 41, 56–57, 59–61, 71–73, 72, 80–81, 83, 94–96, 156–57, 188, 208, 215–16, 256–58 Gruber family, 34–36, 39–45, 45, 51, 56–60, 71–76, 76, 79–81, 83, 94, 101, 105, 112, 124, 131, 134–35, 141, 144, 155–58, 161, 194, 205–7, 215, 225–26, 237–38, 256 Guadalupe Hidalgo, Treaty of (1848), 113 “guatemike” (eBay land seller), 131 Gunnison, Colorado, 192–93, 258 guns and firearms, 3–4, 70, 73–74, 79–80, 83–84, 84, 93–94, 103–5, 150, 171, 171, 181, 193–94, 202, 220–23, 225, 227, 243 H Habitat for Humanity, 24 Haiti, 24 Hanson, Samantha, 47–48, 54 Harper’s Index, 138 Harper’s Magazine, 144, 265n Harry (pierced man), 224–26 Hartford Courant, 125, 126 Harvey, James Rose, 264n Hawaii, 70 Head, Lafayette, 100 health care, 5, 36, 78–79, 155, 161–63 dental, 57, 161–62 mental health, 149, 162–63, 211–12, 237 Hercules Cluster, 256 Here Comes Honey Boo Boo (TV show), 146 heroin, 23, 57–58 Hershey, Ken, 166–70 Hesperia subdivision (California), 123 Highway 17 (Cosmic Highway), 233 Hinsdale County, 191 Hispanic residents, 11, 13, 21, 33, 68, 99, 110–14, 111, 190–91, 198, 245–48 Hitchcock, Alfred, 231 homelessness, 51, 199–200, 212 homeschooling, 70, 72, 90–91 homesteaders, nineteenth-century, 11 Hometown Food Market, 96, 232 horses, 11, 40, 42, 50, 72, 77, 93, 97–98, 106–7, 148, 156, 195–97, 196, 201, 214 housing subsidized, 51 supportive, 25 How to Find Gold Claims Online (video), 201 hunting, 38–39, 110, 203 I Ibn Wahhaj, Siraj, 194 ID, lack of, 91 Idaho, 70, 246 Indigenous people (Native Americans), 11, 83, 100, 112–14, 155, 199, 247–49, 251–52, 264n.

Raising Lazarus: Hope, Justice, and the Future of America’s Overdose Crisis
by Beth Macy
Published 15 Aug 2022

Epilogue Brooke Parker searching for clients, Charleston, West Virginia. I kept obsessively circling my subjects, returning to them time and again. I kept searching out magic wands and solutions, but the bricks from the crumbling drug war just kept falling. My sources were all still out there working, their programs held together by tape and glue, reliant on GoFundMe and T-shirt sales and homemade salves. I knew operations were flimsier than ever when my dear friend Sister Beth Davies, a Catholic nun and drug counselor in Pennington Gap, Virginia, asked me to donate to her Addiction Education Center, where I’d gone years ago to interview Purdue’s first victims.

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Hers should be one of the most stable organizations in the entire recovery movement. But she is eighty-eight years old, works too many fucking hours, and is in danger of getting her lights cut off while the Sacklers’ light bill is paid for a thousand years in advance. It was Bisch’s idea to start a GoFundMe campaign on her center’s behalf. And if I know Ed Bisch, who has learned more about bankruptcy than a third-year law student, he will never stop advocating for families of the dead and people like Sister Beth. The value of his son’s life, according to the Drain-approved victim compensation formula: either zero (because the OxyContin that killed Eddie wasn’t prescribed to him) or $3,500 at most.

The Unclaimed: Abandonment and Hope in the City of Angels
by Pamela Prickett and Stefan Timmermans
Published 11 Mar 2024

Instead, as in centuries past, the poor go to great lengths to receive a decent funeral, “for they know,” sociologist Tony Walter wrote, “there is something appalling about a human life ending, and no one noticing, no one marking it.” Scene investigator Kristina McGuire, who picked up David’s body, agrees that money can be a barrier to claiming relatives. “But when you need money, you find it,” she said. She has seen families organize car washes and GoFundMe campaigns to provide a basic memorial. Low-cost funeral and cremation options are more readily available now (budget caskets can be ordered online), rendering many traditional cemetery expenses obsolete. The fact that the middle class and wealthy increasingly run the risk of going unclaimed is further proof that money alone is not driving the increase.

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GO TO NOTE REFERENCE IN TEXT He could no longer run Interview with Clara Hanna, August 18, 2020. GO TO NOTE REFERENCE IN TEXT Bobby had gone off the deep end Interview with Clara Hanna, September 22, 2021. GO TO NOTE REFERENCE IN TEXT Facebook fundraiser Bobby also posted on his Facebook page about a GoFundMe fundraiser. Neither fundraiser generated any money. Bobby spelled “its” as “it’s” in the posting. GO TO NOTE REFERENCE IN TEXT Bobby was fifty-nine Bobby posted on Facebook in September 2018 that he’d been in New Directions five months following an eviction. GO TO NOTE REFERENCE IN TEXT she stopped in disbelief Ibid.

Wrap It In A Bit Of Cheese Like You're Tricking The Dog: The fifth collection of essays and emails by New York Times Best Selling author David Thorne
by David Thorne
Published 3 Dec 2016

The Likes multiplied and comments made it to the length where they required a ‘read more’ link. She added whooping cough, Asperger’s syndrome and altitude sickness. I bumped into her at the supermarket a month or so later. “You’re in a wheelchair?” “Yes, UGHHH zis allows me access to ze day to day things most people take for granted.” “Where’d you get it?” “I set up a GoFundMe UGHHH account.” “Seriously? How much did it cost?” “Thirty-five UGHHH hundred dollars. It’s custom fitted.” “You don’t think you’re pushing this whole thing a bit?” “What zing?” “All of the ‘zings’. What’s the oxygen mask for?” “Chronic obstructive UGHHH pulmonary disease.” “Right. And the leg braces?”

The Awoken: A Novel
by Katelyn Monroe Howes
Published 8 Aug 2022

Too poor to afford the medicine, Avon was forced to undergo cryo while his family saved up the money for the years of malaria treatment he required. Avon legally euthanized himself with the expectation that he’d be brought back within a few months, a common practice that was termed a “death loan.” When I was alive, cryogenics was only an option for the rich and privileged. I had to raise $200,000 on GoFundMe, and that was after Max emptied his savings account. Preservation was expensive. But in Avon’s time, advancements in cryogenics had made it cheaper than ongoing medical treatment. So cryogenics became a method relegated to the poor who couldn’t afford cures. In the 2080s, the association with lower-class people degraded public opinion on cryogenics even further.

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The expense of preserving my body was why Max called Nancy’s news station to begin with. Hopefully, pleading my case on TV will inspire people to donate. The executives were more than eager to give me a platform. A dying girl pleading for her life on the evening news is good TV. I just need to tee it up. “My boyfriend started a GoFundMe that we’re so grateful went viral.” It’s only then that I notice Max standing behind the lights. Of course he is—where else would he be? I knew he was there, and yet seeing him in the dark behind the bright lights takes me entirely off guard. A feeling of utter loneliness consumes me. I want him near me.

Tracers in the Dark: The Global Hunt for the Crime Lords of Cryptocurrency
by Andy Greenberg
Published 15 Nov 2022

Bice dug up his Amazon page, too, where he seemed to leave reviews on hundreds of products and put others on a “wish list”—including external storage devices that could hold terabytes of videos, hidden cameras, and other cameras designed to be snaked through small spaces, like holes drilled in a wall. Finally, with a creeping sense of dread, Janczewski saw that the Border Patrol agent’s wife had a young daughter and that he had created a crowdfunding page on GoFundMe to raise money to legally adopt the girl as his stepdaughter. “Fuck,” Janczewski thought to himself. “Did he upload videos of the daughter?” Janczewski looked back at Welcome to Video and saw that some of the thumbnails of the videos uploaded by the person with this username showed the sexual assault of a young girl about the daughter’s age.

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Janczewski asked their undercover HSI agent to download the videos that had been uploaded by the Texas agent, and he began the grueling process of watching them one by one. A few videos in, he spotted something that jolted the pattern-matching subroutines of his brain: At one point in the recording, the girl in the video he was watching had a red flannel shirt tied around her waist. He looked back at a photo of the girl posted to the GoFundMe page and saw it: She was wearing the same red flannel. Was this Border Patrol agent an admin on Welcome to Video? A moderator? It hardly mattered. He now believed he’d found the identity of an active child rapist who lived with his victim and had been recording and sharing his crimes with thousands of other users.

The Ones We've Been Waiting For: How a New Generation of Leaders Will Transform America
by Charlotte Alter
Published 18 Feb 2020

They had started a GoFundMe page to raise money to buy firewood, wood-burning stoves, sleeping bags, and cots for the water protectors struggling through the sub-zero winter in North Dakota. The plan was to drive the supplies to Standing Rock while livestreaming their road trip on Facebook so their friends could follow along and donate to the cause. “If you want to help us fund the trip, you can Venmo us,” Alexandria said into the camera with a wink. She proved to be surprisingly good at this form of online fundraising: they asked for a few hundred dollars, and reached their GoFundMe goal in a single day.

Twitter and Tear Gas: The Power and Fragility of Networked Protest
by Zeynep Tufekci
Published 14 May 2017

Meanwhile, inspired by my tweets about donating office space or showing up in person to help clean up the place, a friend of mine in Boston set up a “GoFundMe” campaign—raising money that was earmarked only for repairs to that firebombed building, and not otherwise available for electoral activities. Along with many others, I retweeted the campaign, which quickly raised $13,000. Many people cited Michelle Obama’s then recent speech when she had said “when they go low, we go high.” I had not actually conceived of the initial gesture in that manner. As someone who works locally in assisting refugees in North Carolina, I was not naïve about the politics in my state. I didn’t even donate to the GoFundMe campaign—it closed very quickly—but I thought any gesture was fine as long as money was properly earmarked; only the building, no electoral activities.

Doppelganger: A Trip Into the Mirror World
by Naomi Klein
Published 11 Sep 2023

Sign up for the copycat site Gettr, the right-wing Twitter rival started by the former Trump aide Jason Miller: “Unlike the Silicon Valley oligarchs, Gettr will NEVER sell your data.” (Wolf has nearly 200,000 followers there, more than on Twitter before she got booted.) Censored by YouTube? Get an account on Rumble. Shadow banned on Instagram? Try Parler. “Speak freely,” the company urges, on “the premier social media app guided by the First Amendment.” Did GoFundMe refuse to distribute the money you raised to support your favorite Freedom Convoy, claiming the funds would be used to support violence and harassment? Don’t worry, GiveSendGo, “The #1 Free Christian Fundraising Site,” will distribute the cash, along with a prayer, no questions asked. Bannon is even selling his own currency, starting with the “FJB coin”; the initials stand, of course, for “Fuck Joe Biden.”

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When McKinsey Comes to Town: The Hidden Influence of the World's Most Powerful Consulting Firm
by Walt Bogdanich and Michael Forsythe
Published 3 Oct 2022

“All they care about is money,” his wife said after learning of her husband’s death. “I have no husband. My children have no father. I have no idea how I’m going to pay for my house, or my car, any of my bills. I was a stay-at-home mother. I have no experiences. Jon was everything to me.” Friends and well-wishers raised $14,000 on her behalf through a GoFundMe campaign. Billy McCall, president of United Steelworkers Local 1066 during the Carnegie Way, said Arrizola was well liked. “U.S. Steel made all these moves via McKinsey schemes, and ultimately he was moved from one area where he was quite proficient into another area where he was not as proficient,” McCall said.

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See also banks; credit securitization; insurance industry; mortgages bailouts and, 178, 188 deregulation of, 171–74, 178, 180 financialization, 180, 194, 196–97 financial planning services, 43 Financial Times, 185 Fine, David, 224, 227–29, 231, 234–35, 237–38 First Auto Works, 108 First Boston, 184 First National City Bank (later Citibank), 175 Fisher, Meg, 189 Fishman, Charles, 45–47 Florida, 154, 193 Floyd, George, protests, 107 Food and Drug Administration (FDA), 22, 66–71, 281 Alzheimer’s drug and, 67–69 conflicts of interest and, 66–70, 120, 122, 125–29, 137, 141, 145–47 drug approval process and, 68, 132 e-cigarettes and, 122–29 medical products and, 128–29 nicotine steering committee, 125 opioids and, 132, 134, 137, 141, 144–47 proactive identification of health risks and, 121–22 risk evaluation and mitigation strategy (REMS), 145 tobacco regulation and, 120–29 track and trace system and, 146 warning letters and, 66 Forbes, 42 Fording River, 165 Ford Motor Company, 32, 40 Foreign Agents Registration Act, 246 Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, 230 Forsythe, Mike, 92n, 243n Fortune, 25, 33, 115 Fort Wayne, Indiana, 138 Foundation for a Smoke-Free World, 128 Fox News, 46, 106 France, 101 Francona, Terry, 216 Freddie Mac, 182, 187 freedom of assembly, 107 Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), 79 freedom of religion, 107 freedom of speech, 101 freedom of the press, 100, 107 free trade, 41, 46 From Good Hands to Boxing Gloves (Berardinelli), 193–94 frontline empowerment plan, 210 funnel analysis, 117 G Galbraith, John Kenneth, 35–36 Galilee Basin, 158 Gama, Siyabonga, 227–28, 230 gambling, 18, 129, 209–11, 213 Gap stores, 15 Garbus, Martin, 82 Gardner, Nora, 30–31, 86, 88 Gary, Elbert “Judge,” 3–4 Gary, Indiana, 1–5, 8 Gary Works, 5 Gasdia, Russell, 141 Gattis, Evan, 215 Gawande, Atul, 147 Gazprom, 163, 257 Geiser, Nell, 49 Geithner, Tim, 188 GEM industries, 167 General Electric (GE), 40, 176–77, 208, 226, 260 General Motors (GM), 32–33, 37, 95, 98, 174, 176, 184, 260 General Services Administration (GSA), 70–71 gene therapies, 68 genocide, 100, 105 Georgetown University, 85, 106 Germany, 113, 117–18 Gerstner, Lou, 18, 117 Ghatak, Arnab, 131, 135, 141, 143, 146–47 Giridharadas, Anand, 26, 49–50, 154 Giuliani, Rudy, 136 Glass-Steagall Act (1933), 174 global health treaty, 118 globalization, 39, 41, 43, 50, 117–18, 147, 189 GoFundMe, 6 gold, 162, 224 Goldman Sachs, 19–20, 31, 172–73, 175, 242 Gomes, Yan, 217 Gonzalez, Guillermo, 189 Good Morning America (TV show), 68 Goodson, Bianca, 223, 234 Goodwin, Mike, 11 Google, 19, 21, 79–80 Gordian, Maria, 137, 142 Gore, Al, 156 Gorman, James P., 18, 175 Gottleib, Scott, 144 Government Accountability Office (GAO), 188 Goza, Dr.

I Want to Be Where the Normal People Are
by Rachel Bloom
Published 17 Nov 2020

First, I messaged every person who had ever insulted my talent or personality and asked for their Venmo or PayPal usernames. I then deposited $100 into each and every one of their accounts. When I found the person who wrote, “Saw your show last night & u suck LOL,” I found out that she was a lady in Michigan who had started a GoFundMe for her grandma’s hip replacement. I fully funded it. Within hours, I received a heartfelt email from her. “I am beyond words. From the bottom of my heart, thank you. I don’t know if this is the same Rachel Bloom I tweeted at last night, but if it is … I had just gotten yelled at by my boss at Office Depot and when I saw your show, I got super jealous LOL.”

100 Things We've Lost to the Internet
by Pamela Paul
Published 14 Oct 2021

Everything that makes you feel good can end up making another person feel bad, and you have no idea it’s happening because the only signal you’re getting is an absence of a signal, or a faded signal (perhaps a mere like rather than a love). Charity, that supposed selfless act, can feel performative when our benevolent leanings and GoFundMe contributions, our support for breast cancer awareness and our birthday donations on Facebook, and don’t forget the seven p.m. cheer for emergency workers, are all on display. What would have seemed like a default position—doing nothing—now means you don’t care. You are not an ally or a supporter or a remotely good person.

This Could Be Our Future: A Manifesto for a More Generous World
by Yancey Strickler
Published 29 Oct 2019

This disregard for “how the real world works” let us think a step beyond how things were. It gave us a wider spectrum of what could be possible. Ten years later, billions of dollars have changed hands and tens of millions of people have experienced crowdfunding just the way it was imagined. Through Kickstarter, GoFundMe, and others. A whole new economy based on the generosity of people supporting a fellow human being or idea. The status quo’s view of what’s possible was too limited. It often is. * * * ■ ■ ■ ■ Crowdfunding is far from the only human-made thing we think of as natural. What a piano looks like, why we drink orange juice for breakfast, the shape of the letters you read right now.

The Passenger
by The Passenger
Published 27 Dec 2021

In what was perhaps her best-known article, ‘Letter to My 14-Year-Old Self’ (available on the Guardian website), later adapted for the screen, the then 24-year-old described the persecution she suffered at school after confiding in the ‘wrong person’ that she was gay. A crowdfunding campaign (www.gofundme.com/f/in-memory-of-lyra-mckee) organised to help Lyra’s family has to date raised nearly £70,000 ($95,500), some of which will be used to provide bursaries to young journalists. One of the pieces of advice that Lyra gave herself in her letter was, ‘It won’t always be like this. It’s going to get better.’

WTF?: What's the Future and Why It's Up to Us
by Tim O'Reilly
Published 9 Oct 2017

Restaurants compete on the basis of creativity and service, “everyone’s private driver” whisks people around in comfort from experience to experience, and one-of-a-kind boutiques provide unique consumer goods. Rich people once took the European grand tour; now soccer hooligans do it. Cell phones, designer fashion, and entertainment have all been democratized. Mozart had the Holy Roman Emperor as his patron; Kickstarter, GoFundMe, and Patreon extend that opportunity to millions of ordinary people. This rings of bubble talk from the privileged coasts. Yet it is true far more broadly. Cell phones are found even in the poorest parts of the world. The variety of clothing, food, and consumer goods available at a Walmart would astonish even wealthy people from fifty years ago.

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Jack Conte, half of the musical duo Pomplamoose and founder and CEO of crowdfunding patronage site Patreon, told me that he founded Patreon after “Nataly and I got 17 million views of our music videos, and it turned into $3,500 in ad revenue. Our fans value us more than that.” Tens of thousands of artists now receive enough patronage via the platform that they can now concentrate on their work. As crowdfunding sites like Patreon (and, of course, Kickstarter, Indiegogo, and GoFundMe) show, there are increasingly new opportunities for ordinary people to compete for real currency, not just attention. These sites are still a relatively small part of the overall economy, but they have a lot to teach us about its possible future direction. Perhaps the right answer, though, is not to monetize creativity in the old way, by converting it to machine money, but to build an entirely new kind of economy.

Rules for Revolutionaries: How Big Organizing Can Change Everything
by Becky Bond and Zack Exley
Published 9 Nov 2016

He realized he couldn’t take it anymore one day when a group of businessmen walked away from a half-full $3,000 bottle of wine. He quit and started a food truck, Crazy Good Burgers, which became a hit, but then caught on fire—literally on fire—and burned to the ground. Corbin had no insurance, so he became a digital campaigner and fundraiser using GoFundMe and was able to raise enough money to start over. Right after Bernie announced his campaign, Corbin found a buyer for the business—with its “secret seven-step process recipe for Crazy Good Fries”—and resolved to stretch the earnings as long as possible to volunteer for Bernie full time in Tennessee.

Happy-Go-Lucky
by David Sedaris
Published 30 May 2022

The only people who seemed to be working anymore were journalists. Just as I was certain that every aspect of the coronavirus had been exhausted, I found an article on how it was adversely affecting prostitutes. They couldn’t exactly file for unemployment benefits, so many had apparently started GoFundMe campaigns. When I mentioned the article to my agent, Cristina, she said, “I don’t see why they can’t just Skype. Not that it will really fix anything. It won’t be long before sex robots drive all those people out of business.” Who are you? I wondered. I mean, sex robots! This was my agent! There was also FaceTime, of course, which I supposed could be amended in this case to Sit-on-Your-Face Time.

We Are Bellingcat: Global Crime, Online Sleuths, and the Bold Future of News
by Eliot Higgins
Published 2 Mar 2021

europe=true 24 twitter.com/DisinfoPortal/status/1113190404105568257 25 euvsdisinfo.eu/figure-of-the-week-111486-0619/ www.groene.nl/artikel/het-mh17-complot 26 www.bellingcat.com/news/uk-and-europe/2014/07/24/caught-in-a-lie-compelling-evidence-russia-lied-about-the-buk-linked-to-mh17/ 27 ukraineatwar.blogspot.com/2014/07/another-photo-of-mh17-buk-transport.html 28 www.bellingcat.com/news/uk-and-europe/2014/07/28/two-more-key-sightings-of-the-mh17-buk-missile-launcher/ 29 www.bellingcat.com/news/uk-and-europe/2014/07/28/the-buk-that-could-an-open-source-odyssey/ 30 www.bellingcat.com/news/uk-and-europe/2014/07/22/the-latest-open-source-theories-speculation-and-debunks-on-flight-mh17/ www.bellingcat.com/resources/articles/2014/08/06/investigating-the-mh17-crash-site-with-meedans-checkdesk/web.archive.org/web/20140825231735/http://bellingcat.checkdesk.org/en/story/24 31 www.bellingcat.com/news/mena/2014/08/28/russias-version-of-the-navy-seals-may-be-fighting-in-ukraine/ 32 www.bellingcat.com/news/uk-and-europe/2014/09/08/images-show-the-buk-that-downed-flight-mh17-inside-russia-controlled-by-russian-troops/ 33 www.themoscowtimes.com/archive/activist-plans-protest-amid-outrage-over-talk-show-hosts-homophobic-meteor-comments 34 www.bellingcat.com/news/uk-and-europe/2014/10/11/russian-tv-inadvertently-demonstrates-mh17-wasnt-shot-down-by-aircraft-cannon-fire/ 35 www.bellingcat.com/news/2014/11/14/russian-state-television-shares-fake-images-of-mh17-being-attacked/ 36 www.bellingcat.com/news/uk-and-europe/2014/11/08/origin-of-the-separatists-buk-a-bellingcat-investigation/ 37 www.bellingcat.com/resources/case-studies/2015/01/27/examining-the-mh17-launch-smoke-photographs/ 38 www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkCcCmYlMZc 39 www.bellingcat.com/news/uk-and-europe/2015/01/27/is-this-the-launch-site-of-the-missile-that-shot-down-flight-mh17/ 40 www.bellingcat.com/news/uk-and-europe/2015/05/31/mh17-forensic-analysis-of-satellite-images-released-by-the-russian-ministry-of-defence/ 41 www.gofundme.com/bellingcatsat 42 www.bellingcat.com/news/uk-and-europe/2015/06/12/july-17-imagery-mod-comparison/ 43 www.bellingcat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/53rd-report-public.pdf 44 www.bellingcat.com/news/americas/2014/12/17/mexicos-guerra-al-narco-a-disaster-rooted-in-misinterpretations/www.bellingcat.com/news/americas/2015/03/20/assessing-mexicos-guerra-al-narco/www.bellingcat.com/news/americas/2016/02/25/geolocating-mexican-sicarios-in-chihuahua/ www.bellingcat.com/news/2015/08/07/tracking-swiss-watches-in-sinaloa-top-6-luxury-brands-among-mexican-drug-lords/ 45 www.bellingcat.com/resources/2015/10/05/gangs-of-detroit-osint-and-indictment-documents/ 46 www.bellingcat.com/news/mena/2016/02/05/yemens-bombed-water-infrastructure/ 47 www.bellingcat.com/resources/articles/2015/10/05/crowdsourced-geolocation-and-analysis-of-russian-mod-airstrike-videos-from-syria/www.bellingcat.com/news/mena/2015/10/26/what-russias-own-videos-and-maps-reveal-about-who-they-are-bombing-in-syria/ 48 www.bellingcat.com/resources/how-tos/2015/03/15/how-tall-is-that-gantry/ www.bellingcat.com/resources/how-tos/2015/04/10/theres-a-map-for-that/ 49 medium.com/1st-draft/baltimore-looting-tweets-show-importance-of-quick-and-easy-image-checks-a713bbcc275e 50 www.bellingcat.com/resources/how-tos/2015/05/08/manual-reverse-image-search-with-google-and-tineye/ 51 www.bellingcat.com/resources/case-studies/2014/08/23/the-hills-of-raqqa-geolocating-the-james-foley-video/ 52 www.bellingcat.com/resources/case-studies/2015/11/23/how-we-found-one-of-the-paris-suicide-bombers-on-facebook/ 53 www.atlanticcouncil.org/images/publications/Hiding_in_Plain_Sight/HPS_English.pdf 54 By March 2019, they had funded 662 projects totalling 140 million euros.www.blog.google/around-the-globe/google-europe/digital-news-innovation-fund-three-years-and-662-total-projects-supported/ 55 www.bellingcat.com/resources/articles/2016/05/13/dataset-of-russian-attacks-against-syrias-civilians/ 3 FIREWALL OF FACTS 1 threatconnect.com/blog/faketivist-vs-hacktivist-how-they-differ/ 2 www.apnews.com/69b28dd8fc034cb0a2528048638d7893 3 threatconnect.com/blog/tapping-into-democratic-national-committee/threatconnect.com/blog/does-a-bear-leak-in-the-woods/ 4 threatconnect.com/blog/russia-hacks-bellingcat-mh17-investigation/ 5 www.bellingcat.com/resources/articles/2015/10/05/crowdsourced-geolocation-and-analysis-of-russian-mod-airstrike-videos-from-syria/ 6 www.rt.com/news/317971-bellingcat-russia-syria-videos-geolocation/ 7 www.linkedin.com/in/richard-galustian-a834136 8 russia-insider.com/en/understanding-history-zionism/ri26852 9 www.bellingcat.com/resources/articles/2016/04/14/response-from-the-russian-ministry-of-foreign-affairs-to-bellingcat-regarding-fakery-allegations/ www.bellingcat.com/news/uk-and-europe/2016/04/22/mfa-plagiarism/ 10 www.whitehelmets.org/en/ 11 www.infowars.com/report-soros-linked-group-behind-chemical-attack-in-syria/ www.nytimes.com/2017/04/10/us/politics/factcheck-syria-strike-conspiracy-theories.html 12 www.bellingcat.com/resources/articles/2017/07/04/khan-sheikhoun-false-flag-conspiracy-actually-mean/ 13 www.thedailybeast.com/the-kardashian-look-alike-trolling-for-assad 14 www.youtube.com/watch?

The Great Wave: The Era of Radical Disruption and the Rise of the Outsider
by Michiko Kakutani
Published 20 Feb 2024

As for unionization at Amazon, the first successful effort at a warehouse in the United States came at a huge eight-thousand-plus-employee site on Staten Island, and it was orchestrated by Christian Smalls and Derrick Palmer, two workers in their early thirties who had no professional organizing experience or affiliation with a national labor organization. The pair raised $120,000 on GoFundMe and began talking to fellow workers, figuring, as Smalls reasoned, that it made more sense to build “from the inside out.” They posted TikTok videos, listened to workers’ complaints, and outside the warehouse offered home-cooked soul food made by Smalls’s aunt—baked chicken, macaroni and cheese, and candied yams.

Lurking: How a Person Became a User
by Joanne McNeil
Published 25 Feb 2020

As social media makes everyone media, traffic, likes, followers, and engagement mean more to users than popularity. When metrics determine having a job or not having a job, those who seem thirsty, and desperate to influence, are owed some sympathy. The difference between thousands of followers or not could provide a month of insulin treatment through GoFundMe or not. It is grotesque, but an influencer’s influence may have the stakes of life or death. It is possible to be an Instagram user far away from all of this. A number of my friends say that Instagram is the only social network they actually like. They follow no celebrities or “influencers,” only people they know—they are there to see the lives of people they care about.

The Twittering Machine
by Richard Seymour
Published 20 Aug 2019

Witty, charismatic, unruffled, she went viral, an instant meme. YouTube remixes proliferated. Online companies used her image to sell merchandise. News and entertainment channels gained a surge of viewer traffic. This didn’t necessarily help Dobyne, who continued to live out of her car until a supporter set up a GoFundMe page. There was even a whiff of racism in her portrayal as an exotic caricature whose plight was funny. The professed admiration for her was therefore complicated, exploitative on the part of the media and, sometimes, tacitly dehumanizing. The randomness, misfortune and complexity of cultural wants that led to Dobyne’s celebrity is typical of the way stars are made.

The Enablers: How the West Supports Kleptocrats and Corruption - Endangering Our Democracy
by Frank Vogl
Published 14 Jul 2021

Following his release, he renewed his passport and obtained a long-term French visa on 8 April 2019. The Conference of INGOs is stupefied by this incident which restricts Mehman Huseynov’s freedom of movement and will follow the situation very closely.” In 2020, Mehman joined his brother in Switzerland, where he was diagnosed to be seriously ill. An international “go-fund-me” campaign raised funds to support his medical care. 18. The names of journalists who have died in prison in Azerbaijan were provided by Ermin Huseynov. 19. Report by the Eurasia Group August 9, 2019, quoting reports by the Security Assistance Monitor (SAM) based in Washington, DC, headlined: “Amid Iran Crisis, U.S.

Other Pandemic: How QAnon Contaminated the World
by James Ball
Published 19 Jul 2023

Michael Jensen and Sheehan Kane, ‘QAnon-inspired violence in the United States: an empirical assessment of a misunderstood threat’, www.tandfonline.com, 14 December 2021. 25. Nick Perry, ‘Report finds lapses ahead of New Zealand mosque attack’, https://apnews.com, 8 December 2020. 26. As he was a minor at the time of the attack and the offence took place in Canada, the perpetrator cannot be named. 27. Kevin Connor, ‘Spa murder victim a “kind, loving” mom of one: GoFundMe’, https://torontosun.com, 26 February 2020. 28. Stewart Bell, Andrew Russell and Catherine McDonald, ‘Deadly attack at Toronto erotic spa was incel terrorism, police allege’, https://globalnews.ca, 20 May 2020. 29. Amy Coles, ‘Plymouth shootings: Police face scrutiny over decision to give gunman Jake Davison his shotgun licence back last month’, https://news.sky.com, 14 August 2021. 30.

925 Ideas to Help You Save Money, Get Out of Debt and Retire a Millionaire So You Can Leave Your Mark on the World
by Devin D. Thorpe
Published 25 Nov 2012

Be cautious about borrowing for home improvements—improvement is in the eye of the beholder. If you don’t have the ability to borrow from your 401k in a crisis, your home equity may be a refuge. Try crowdfunding. There are countless web sites for people to raise money from their friends for all sorts of causes, from movies to charitable causes. One of these sites, GoFundMe (bit.ly/c2JOFU), is focused on helping people raise money from their friends in a crisis. You’ll be amazed at what your friends are willing to do for you in a pinch. Work out a plan. Sometimes the nature of the crisis, say a big medical bill for a now resolved (or ended) health problem, leaves you with a big pile of bills.

Everything for Everyone: The Radical Tradition That Is Shaping the Next Economy
by Nathan Schneider
Published 10 Sep 2018

“We can generate a return participating in that,” he said in 2015, “and we think that’s what we should be doing.”22 Still, he can’t imagine investing directly in co-ops. There need to be other ways. Co-ops were the original crowdfunding. They were how people got together and financed a business to do things nobody else would do for them. Online crowdfunding borrows this idea, but platforms such as Kickstarter and GoFundMe subtract the co-ownership and mutual accountability of their cooperative predecessors. Platform co-ops are trying to bring this back. One of the earliest platform co-ops of all, Snowdrift.coop, is honing a model for helping its co-owners crowdfund free-and-open projects for the commons that nobody will own.

Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters
by Abigail Shrier
Published 28 Jun 2020

His earrings, cat tattoos, flop of hair dyed every vivid shade of parrot, and nail polish all slyly nod toward the sex of his birth. Keeping others off balance seems part of the fun and very much the point. Chase believes he is helping trans-identified adolescents and seems sincerely motivated by that calling. (Unlike other influencers I interviewed, for instance, he didn’t ask that I encourage everyone to visit his GoFundMe page for his gender surgeries.) He hosts giveaways of breast binders and reviews female-to-male transgender sex toys, a service presumably helpful to part of his target audience. He also offers reflections on his own medical transition for those audience members untroubled by his lack of medical training.

How to Stand Up to a Dictator
by Maria Ressa
Published 19 Oct 2022

For the core organizers and the more than 80 organizations in the #HoldTheLine Global Coalition—thank you to the Committee to Protect Journalists, Reporters Without Borders, the International Center for Journalists for organizing that and all you do. For my Princeton friends, led by Olivia Hurlock and Leslie Tucker, who remains my writing partner since college. They created a gofundme for food, reaching across the oceans to let me know that we are not alone, and that even in a lockdown, we can have meals and wine together. For Kathy Kiely, who came out of nowhere and organized campaign after campaign of support for us, with Princeton’s journalists leading the charge. For the great class of ’86 and our class president Elisabeth Rodgers and the hundreds of Princetonians across the ages, who threw their voices and energy behind us.

How to Prevent the Next Pandemic
by Bill Gates
Published 2 May 2022

Ethel Branch, a member of the Navajo Nation and its former attorney general, left her law firm to help form the Navajo & Hopi Families COVID-19 Relief Fund, an organization that delivers water, food, and other necessities to people in need throughout the Navajo and Hopi nations. She and her colleagues have raised millions of dollars (some of it through one of the top five GoFundMe campaigns of 2020) and organized hundreds of young volunteers who have helped tens of thousands of families from both nations. The stories of people who are making sacrifices to help others during this crisis could fill an entire book. Around the world, health care workers put themselves at risk to treat sick people—according to the WHO, more than 115,000 had lost their lives taking care of COVID patients by May 2021.

Irresistible: The Rise of Addictive Technology and the Business of Keeping Us Hooked
by Adam L. Alter
Published 15 Feb 2017

After Rodney Smith, Jr., noticed a ninety-three-year-old woman struggling to mow her lawn in Huntsville, Alabama, he created an organization known as Raising Men Lawn Care. Raising Men employs young men, many from underprivileged backgrounds, to mow lawns free of charge. (The organization is funded by well-wishers on its GoFundMe page.) The boys are motivated to do the right thing, but they’re also motivated by a badge system that borrows from martial arts. As the company’s Facebook page explains, the color-ranking system is “similar to how they do it in martial arts . . . the kids will start the program with a white shirt.

Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
by Jia Tolentino
Published 5 Aug 2019

These companies represent a socially approved version of millennial scamming: the dream of being a “founder” who gets a dumb idea, raises a ton of money, and sells the company before he has to do too much work. Configured this way, success is a lottery—just as survival today can look like a lottery, too. If you’re super lucky, if everyone likes you, if you’ve got hustle, you might end up making millions. Similarly, if you’re super lucky, if everyone likes you, if you can get that GoFundMe to go viral, you might end up being able to pay for your insulin, or your leg surgery after a bike accident, or your $10,000 hospital bill from giving birth. In any case, everything is so expensive that you might find yourself reading about the recent rash of suicides among New York taxi drivers as you take a slightly cheaper VC-subsidized ride from the company that has destroyed the taxi industry.

Ghost Work: How to Stop Silicon Valley From Building a New Global Underclass
by Mary L. Gray and Siddharth Suri
Published 6 May 2019

So in 2015, when a 7.8-magnitude earthquake struck Gorkha, an eastern district of the Himalayan nation of Nepal, 50 miles outside Kathmandu, Sears knew what he needed to do next. Sears, his full-time staff, and his Nepalese on-demand workers turned CloudFactory’s headquarters into a crisis relief center for his workers, their families, and surrounding Kathmandu neighborhoods. CloudFactory also launched a GoFundMe campaign and raised nearly $110,000 for local relief and outreach efforts.1 He and his team documented their earthquake relief work on the company website, to keep attention on the quake victims long after press coverage of the tragedy had ended. Like most companies, but especially on-demand companies, CloudFactory had no legal obligation to help its workers.

The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future
by Kevin Kelly
Published 6 Jun 2016

Approximately 40 percent of all projects succeed in reaching their funding goal. Each of the 450 or so fan-funding platforms tweak their rules to cater to different groups of creatives or to emphasize different results. Crowdfunding sites can optimize for musicians (PledgeMusic, SellaBand), nonprofits (Fundly, FundRazr), medical emergencies (GoFundMe, Rally), and even science (Petridish, Experiment). A few sites (Patreon, Subbable) are engineered to supply continuous support to an ongoing project like a magazine or video channel. A couple platforms (Flattr, Unglue) use fans to fund work that has already been released. But by far the most potent future role for crowdsharing is in fan base equity.

Parkland: Birth of a Movement
by Dave Cullen
Published 12 Feb 2019

TV news crews were filming nonstop, and started bringing them food, which reminded them to eat. “I saw this ice cream, and it looked so good,” David told me Sunday. “And then I realized I hadn’t eaten breakfast, I hadn’t eaten lunch, and it was five o’clock.” They had a modest website running by showtime Sunday, with a GoFundMe page to accept donations. They would need to set up a foundation to manage the money, which meant attorneys, accountants, and paperwork, but all that could wait. Raising the money could not. They had a tight window—saturation media coverage of the worst tragedies lasted three to five days, and Sunday was day five.

Woke, Inc: Inside Corporate America's Social Justice Scam
by Vivek Ramaswamy
Published 16 Aug 2021

New York Post, 21 Oct. 2020, nypost.com/2020/10/20/meet-your-chinese-facebook-censors/. 5. Loesch, Dana. “Mailchimp Deplatforming a Local Tea Party Is a Hallmark of Fascism.” The Federalist, 16 Nov. 2020, thefederalist.com/2020/11/16/mailchimp-deplatforming-a-local-tea-party-is-a-hallmark-of-fascism/. 6. Montgomery, Blake. “PayPal, GoFundMe, and Patreon Banned a Bunch of People Associated with the Alt-Right. Here’s Why.” BuzzFeed News, 2 Aug. 2017, www.buzzfeednews.com/article/blakemontgomery/the-alt-right-has-a-payment-processor-problem. 7. Henney, Elliot. “Airbnb Cancels Reservation for Self-Proclaimed ‘Proud Boy’ ahead of MAGA March in DC.”

How to Talk to a Science Denier: Conversations With Flat Earthers, Climate Deniers, and Others Who Defy Reason
by Lee McIntyre
Published 14 Sep 2021

But the chance of that actually happening, on a homemade rocket no less, seemed wildly impractical. But here I was sitting across from a Flat Earther who was willing to come with me on a commercial flight that actually existed, and we could take it together. The flight cost $800 per person. He said he didn’t have the money. But how hard would it be for me to go home and set up a Facebook or GoFundMe fundraiser for all of my philosophical and scientific buddies to fund a trip like this? Wouldn’t you chip in fifty bucks to watch a Flat Earther take a flight that he said didn’t exist, then have to reckon with the consequences when that flight flew over Antarctica? I told him that I could fund this myself, probably by the time I got back to Boston.

I Can't Breathe
by Matt Taibbi
Published 23 Oct 2017

Orta immediately wondered if his lawyer might now be tempted to get out of his own problems by trading on their relationship somehow. He even wondered if his cases had already been messed up. Holed up in his friend’s Bronx apartment nearly a year later, he still wondered about that. At the time, though, he fired Zuntag and had his family set up a GoFundMe account to get him new lawyers. They raised twenty thousand dollars and set about looking for new help. Because Orta was a high-profile figure by then, he and his family had received tons of letters already from criminal attorneys willing to take on his case, so they had a lot of names to go through.

Life on the Rocks: Building a Future for Coral Reefs
by Juli Berwald
Published 4 Apr 2022

They wrote: “#Dorian . . . made it to the #coralfarm in #GrandBahama. Shutting it down and heading to the home bunker. for the people of the #Bahamas, and get supplies and help ready to send in.” By September 3, Coral Vita had turned themselves into a triage unit. They’d set up a relief fund on GoFundMe and were working to get supplies where they needed to go. They said they had loaded a truck with chain saws and wanted as much emergency aid on hand as they could muster. They connected the storm’s devastation and recovery to the need for resilient coastal ecosystems. The plea worked. People cared.

Chokepoint Capitalism
by Rebecca Giblin and Cory Doctorow
Published 26 Sep 2022

You were fighting for endangered owls and I was fighting for the ozone layer but we were also fighting together and having each other’s backs.21 Today, chokepoint capitalism afflicts everyone from chicken farmers to professional wrestlers (a kind of high-risk creative labor that is dominated by just one employer, a Trumpist billionaire who bought out all his competition, misclassified his employees as contractors, stripped them of health insurance, and left them to beg on GoFundMe for palliative care as they die young from workplace-related injuries).22 It afflicts bank tellers—US retail banking is dominated by four firms; the largest, Wells Fargo, long pressured its tellers to defraud customers to meet unrealistic sales quotas and retaliated against those who refused by firing them and then adding them to a do-not-hire list that prevented them from getting other work.23 When Wells Fargo got caught, it blamed its low-level employees, and summarily fired thousands for fraud, making it almost impossible for them to get new jobs too.24 Chokepoint capitalism hurts nurses and rideshare drivers and delivery riders and adjunct professors at major universities.

Work Won't Love You Back: How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted, and Alone
by Sarah Jaffe
Published 26 Jan 2021

Employees in those suits, according to the Times , accused managers of “denying workers rest periods, lunch breaks or overtime pay, or retaliating against them for taking medical leave.” Planned Parenthood’s Seattle regional director told the paper that providing medical leave could require her to close clinics; meanwhile, a Colorado employee had turned to GoFundMe to raise money to cover her bills after having a baby because she was on unpaid leave. Out of fifty-six Planned Parenthood affiliates, only five were unionized when Brink and her colleagues began their union drive. A nurse practitioner told reporters of the struggles she faced when she was part of a union campaign at Planned Parenthood of Central North Carolina: “There’s so much focus on the mission and the cause and people become, like at many nonprofits, very vulnerable to being manipulated into lower pay and less benefits for the cause.” 56 The organization’s pleas of poverty frustrated employees and observers during the union drive because donations to Planned Parenthood had skyrocketed following the election of Donald Trump, as did donations to other liberal-identified nonprofits, such as the American Civil Liberties Union.

Your Face Belongs to Us: A Secretive Startup's Quest to End Privacy as We Know It
by Kashmir Hill
Published 19 Sep 2023

He had thought that Ton-That and Schwartz had spines like that of Travis Kalanick, the Uber chief executive who had rolled his ride-hailing app out around the world, ignoring lawsuits and regulators screaming at him that the business model wasn’t legal. Scalzo said that Clearview had transformed from a rocket ship into a “GoFundMe for lawyers.” That wasn’t all. It was also turning into a punching bag for global privacy regulators. Chapter 19 I HAVE A COMPLAINT In January 2020, Matthias Marx, thirty-one, was deeply troubled after reading the New York Times article about Clearview AI. He was a technologist who cared deeply about online privacy.

Imaginable: How to See the Future Coming and Feel Ready for Anything―Even Things That Seem Impossible Today
by Jane McGonigal
Published 22 Mar 2022

Not to shower them with $1,000 checks, that’s not gonna happen, but to shower them with gratitude letters. Now I’m thinking I actually want to try this!” “I would feel busy in this future,” an entrepreneurial friend predicted. “Because I’d be setting up a new business called GoThankMe.com. It would work just like GoFundMe, but it would help people tell their thank-you stories and put a spotlight on eligible workers. We would take a small percentage of the thank-you dollars as a service fee. Two hundred million adults, sending $1,000 each, we take 3 percent, that’s potentially half a billion dollars a year revenue.”

Fulfillment: Winning and Losing in One-Click America
by Alec MacGillis
Published 16 Mar 2021

HUMANS, NOT ROBOTS read their signs those days, when scattered protests across the country would not prevent Amazon from breaking a record with 175 million items sold—on the first day, Baltimore’s Broening Highway warehouse alone would send more than 1 million items. And every so often, news of accidents made it to the outside. A Minneapolis warehouse worker started a GoFundMe fundraiser to pay for his surgery after he suffered fractured vertebrae and a torn labrum when a wall of dog and cat food collapsed on him and, he said, his Amazon health insurance denied the claim. A robot punctured a can of bear repellent spray at a New Jersey warehouse, sending two dozen workers to the hospital.

The Hype Machine: How Social Media Disrupts Our Elections, Our Economy, and Our Health--And How We Must Adapt
by Sinan Aral
Published 14 Sep 2020

The Antivax King of Facebook Larry Cook describes himself as a “full time [antivax] activist.” As of 2019, he was also the antivax king of Facebook. His Stop Mandatory Vaccination organization is a for-profit entity that makes money peddling antivax fake news on social media and earning referral fees from sales of antivax books on Amazon. He also raises money through GoFundMe campaigns that pay for his website, his Facebook ads, and his personal bills. Cook’s Stop Mandatory Vaccination and another organization called the World Mercury Project, headed by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., bought 54 percent of the antivaccine ads on Facebook in 2019. Cook’s antivax Facebook ad campaigns targeted women over twenty-five in Washington State, a population likely to have kids who need vaccines.

Limitless: The Federal Reserve Takes on a New Age of Crisis
by Jeanna Smialek
Published 27 Feb 2023

She had applied for a disaster relief loan the prior Saturday, but she wasn’t confident that it had even been properly submitted: While she had taken a screenshot of the page after she filled it in, she had never received a confirmation email. She was spending all of her time camped out in her tiny New York City apartment, disoriented by her changed reality. No café to go to, no work to do. She passed the time googling to see how other restaurants were staying afloat. That is how she got the idea for the GoFundMe page. She asked for $25,000 up front, which she planned to use for rent, utilities, and payroll. But she wasn’t kidding herself on that day in early April. It was unlikely that internet crowdfunding was going to save her business, help her get her employees back on the clock, or keep her from personal financial disaster.

The Content Trap: A Strategist's Guide to Digital Change
by Bharat Anand
Published 17 Oct 2016

One view is that crowds will displace traditional modes of production. By now crowd-reliant models are routine in digital worlds, where they generate opinion (on Twitter and Facebook), create videos (YouTube), evaluate internal projects (Google), expose secrets (WikiLeaks), raise funds (Kickstarter and GoFundMe), and uncover relevant information. This last application was particularly relevant to The Guardian a few years ago, when its newsroom relied on readers to filter hundreds of thousands of documents on British MPs’ expense claims and identify misconduct. In this light, it’s hard not to think that crowds represent a powerful model and promising future for content creation, deployed in more and more places and inevitably improving in quality.

Terms of Service: Social Media and the Price of Constant Connection
by Jacob Silverman
Published 17 Mar 2015

“Facebook Ignored Security Bug, Researcher Used It to Post Details on Zuckerberg’s Wall.” The Verge. Aug. 18, 2013. theverge.com/2013/8/18/4633046/facebook-security-bug-let-anyone-post-on-walls. 355 Shreateh fund-raising: Marc Maiffret. “Khalil Shreateh—Facebook Bounty.” Go Fund Me. Aug. 19, 2013.gofundme.com/3znhjs. 355 Face.com purchase price: Alexia Tsotsis. “Facebook Scoops Up Face.com for $55–60M to Bolster Its Facial Recognition Tech (Updated).” TechCrunch. June 18, 2012. techcrunch.com/2012/06/18/facebook-scoops-up-face-com-for-100m-to-bolster-its-facial-recognition-tech. 356 “expressive interference”: Adam Harvey.

We Are the Nerds: The Birth and Tumultuous Life of Reddit, the Internet's Culture Laboratory
by Christine Lagorio-Chafkin
Published 1 Oct 2018

As mainstream sites such as YouTube and Facebook cracked down on high-profile proliferators of hate speech, the alt-right vowed to circumvent their gateways and create their own parallel Internet. More than a dozen alt-tech companies launched bizarro versions of mainstream sites, including PewTube, an alternative YouTube, WrongThink, an alt-Facebook, as well as GoyFundMe and Hatreon, alt-crowdfunding alternatives to GoFundMe and Patreon. Google booted Gab from its app store a week after the Charlottesville hate rally, and after the neo-Nazi publication the Daily Stormer’s domain registration was shuttered by GoDaddy and was reregistered on Google, Google blocked the registration, too. A major financial institution kicked Hatreon off its network.

Thank You for Being Late: An Optimist's Guide to Thriving in the Age of Accelerations
by Thomas L. Friedman
Published 22 Nov 2016

Although trade in physical goods and financial products and services—the hallmarks of the twentieth-century global economy—has actually flattened or declined in recent years, globalization as measured by flows is “soaring—transmitting information, ideas, and innovation around the world and broadening participation in the global economy” more than ever, concluded a pioneering study on this subject in March 2016 by the McKinsey Global Institute, Digital Globalization: The New Era of Global Flows: “The world is more interconnected than ever.” Think of the flow of friends through Facebook, the flow of renters through Airbnb, the flow of opinions through Twitter, the flow of e-commerce through Amazon, Tencent, and Alibaba, the flow of crowdfunding through Kickstarter, Indiegogo, and GoFundMe, the flow of ideas and instant messages through WhatsApp and WeChat, the flow of peer-to-peer payments and credit through PayPal and Venmo, the flow of pictures through Instagram, the flow of education through Khan Academy, the flow of college courses through MOOCs, the flow of design tools through Autodesk, the flow of music through Apple, Pandora, and Spotify, the flow of video through Netflix, the flow of news through NYTimes.com or BuzzFeed.com, the flow of cloud-based tools through Salesforce, the flow of searches for knowledge through Google, and the flow of raw video through Periscope and Facebook.

Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity
by Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson
Published 15 May 2023

Turnover rates were enormous in the company’s warehouses, and the workforce was diverse in every respect, coming from myriad backgrounds and speaking dozens of different languages. The movement was organized by workers on the shop floor, not by professional union personnel. It funded itself over the social media platform GoFundMe rather than receiving centralized union money. It appears to have succeeded by developing a less rigid and less ideological approach, focusing on issues relevant to most Amazon warehouse employees, such as excessive monitoring, insufficient breaks, and high injury rates. Although its strategy is very different from the iconic “sit-down strike” of GM workers in 1936, which was a turning point for the US labor movement, it is reminiscent in terms of developing new methods of organizing from the ground up.

Flight of the WASP
by Michael Gross

But instead of injecting more poison into the body politic, the sting of the WASP could now serve as an antidote, reminding us that there is an alternative to our present selfish, narcissistic, tribal, atomized condition, a possibility of restoring America’s civic conscience, collective purpose, and national community. a Patterson’s Accel would eventually invest in Facebook, Dropbox, Spotify, Etsy, GoFundMe, and other internet start-ups. b Flora married Sydney Francis Biddle, a lawyer turned artist from the Philadelphia Biddles, in 1979 and stepped down from the museum’s chair in 1995. Though it’s no longer controlled by the family, a great-granddaughter of Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney still sits on the Whitney Museum’s board today.

Wanderers: A Novel
by Chuck Wendig
Published 1 Jul 2019

Up until a week ago, too, it was difficult to get money for everything—a lot of shepherds were now out of work, so they’d lost their income. Some had savings to drain, but a lot of them were like most Americans, with little to no money saved. With the arrival of the rock star and after the clash with the army, though, things really changed. Someone started a GoFundMe page for the shepherds, which gave a steady flow of cash. Others, too, would deliver donations to the front of the flock—snacks, meals, clothing, toys for some of the shepherd children, dog food for the shepherd pack, and so on. American sentiment had turned regarding the sleepwalkers. At least, for some.