{"id":1299934,"date":"2022-02-15T14:38:40","date_gmt":"2022-02-15T19:38:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1299934"},"modified":"2022-02-15T14:38:48","modified_gmt":"2022-02-15T19:38:48","slug":"report-alleged-givesendgo-leak-shows-canadians-donated-most-to-freedom-convoy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/report-alleged-givesendgo-leak-shows-canadians-donated-most-to-freedom-convoy\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Alleged GiveSendGo Leak Shows Canadians Donated Most to Freedom Convoy"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Freport-alleged-givesendgo-leak-shows-canadians-donated-most-to-freedom-convoy%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1299934&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Freedom-Convoy-in-Ottawa-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">The Canadian Press <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/world\/article-leak-site-says-it-has-list-of-canada-truck-convoy-donors-after\/\">revealed<\/a> on Monday that an alleged hack shows the majority of funds to the civil rights \u201cFreedom Convoy\u201d in the country on the website GiveSendGo come from Canada.<\/p>\n<p>Canadians donated $4.31 million to the protesters through GiveSendGo, according to the Canadian Press report. Americans donated $3.62 million, although more individual donors were from America than Canada, suggesting many Americans sent small donations as a gesture of support. The Canadian Press claimed that 56 percent of donors were in America.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>The revelation, if confirmed, deals a blow to a campaign by Canadian far-leftists, most prominently New Democratic Party (NDP) leader Jagmeet Singh, to blame the anti-mandate protests on Americans. Singh personally has demanded that leftist Prime Minister Justin Trudeau act to contain the alleged malign influence of Americans in the country and named, among others, former President Donald Trump and Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) among the conspirators. Singh has yet to provide any credible evidence for his claims.<\/p>\n<p>GiveSendGo is a Christian-owned funding platform that became the home of the Freedom Convoy\u2019s crowdfunding movement \u2013 used to pay for food, fuel, and other supplies to truckers leading the protests \u2013 after the larger GoFundMe <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/tech\/2022\/02\/04\/highway-robbery-gofundme-to-redirect-10m-canadian-trucker-fund-to-verified-charities\/\">froze<\/a> the protesters\u2019 campaign and initially claimed it would donate the money meant for the protesters to charities of its choice in the case of donors who did not specifically ask for refunds. GiveSendGo has stated since it invited Freedom Convoy leaders to use its platform that it has been under consistent cyberattack.<\/p>\n<p>The Canadian Press said it accessed data allegedly showing anonymous donors to the Freedom Convoy via GiveSendGo through a \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/opencollective.com\/ddosecrets#category-ABOUT\">transparency collective<\/a>\u201d known as&nbsp;Distributed Denial of Secrets, which in turn states that it \u201cobtained\u201d the data but has not revealed a source.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cThe group provided a data set to The Canadian Press and it suggests significant Canadian involvement on top of much-publicized money flowing from the United States,\u201d the news organization asserted.<\/p>\n<p>The data, if accurate, notes only the locations of the donors, not their citizenship status, so it is very possible that the \u201cAmerican\u201d donors are in part Canadians current in America and the \u201cCanadian\u201d donors are foreigners within Canada.<\/p>\n<p>Twitter is&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/tech\/2022\/02\/14\/twitter-allows-hacked-givesendgo-freedom-convoy-data-to-spread-on-platform-ignores-own-policies\/\">allowing<\/a> information from the alleged leak to spread on their platforms despite policies that explicitly prohibit the spread of such data. Twitter terms of use explicitly ban information obtained via \u201cunauthorized access or interception, or access that exceeds authorization (for example, from an insider), to a computer, network or electronic device, including breaches or intrusions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>GiveSendGo issued a statement on Tuesday&nbsp;confirming that the website has faced mounting cyberattacks and apparently dismissing the possibility that an employee at the company leaked the donor list. It did not dispute the veracity of information in the Canadian Press report.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"und\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/jIjvzb7FKT\">pic.twitter.com\/jIjvzb7FKT<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 GiveSendGo (@GiveSendGo) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GiveSendGo\/status\/1493624366030114820?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 15, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cSunday evening, February 13th, GiveSendGo was attacked by malicious actors attempting to eliminate the ability of its users to raise funds,\u201d the company said. \u201cThere was a broadcasted breach showing one such actor illegally hacking into GiveSendGo and distributing the names and emails of the donors of the Freedom Convoy Campaign.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>GiveSendGo\u2019s management asserted that sensitive banking information like credit card numbers was not affected by the leak and vowed to continue hosting the campaign for the civil rights protesters.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cThis has not caused us to be afraid. Instead, it\u2019s made it even more evident that we cannot back down,\u201d the company\u2019s Tuesday statement concluded.<\/p>\n<p>GiveSendGo has been hosting the campaign for about a week, following GoFundMe\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/tech\/2022\/02\/04\/highway-robbery-gofundme-to-redirect-10m-canadian-trucker-fund-to-verified-charities\/\">announcement,<\/a> it would no longer allow supporters of the anti-mandate protests on the platform at the request of the Canadian government. A Canadian court attempted to shut down GiveSendGo\u2019s campaign for the truckers last week, but the company <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/tech\/2022\/02\/11\/givesendgo-defies-fascist-canadian-govt-order-to-freeze-freedom-convoy-trucker-funds\/\">ignored<\/a> its injunction on the grounds that no Canadian court has jurisdiction over any of the company\u2019s activities.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCanada has absolutely ZERO jurisdiction over how we manage our funds here at GiveSendGo,\u201d the company said in a statement. \u201cAll funds for EVERY campaign on GiveSendGo flow directly to the recipients of those campaigns, not least of which is The Freedom Convoy campaign.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B4\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>If true, the revelation that Canadians are the top donors to the Freedom Convoy \u2013 as is expected given that the protests are happening in their country \u2013 deals a blow to the NDP campaign to blame foreigners for the mounting discontent against Canada\u2019s draconian coronavirus-linked civil rights restrictions. The NDP, Singh\u2019s party, launched a petition last week urging Canadians to sign to pressure Trudeau to combat \u201cTrumpism,\u201d which the party leader blamed for the protests.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDonald Trump, Ted Cruz, Fox News and members of the US Alt-right have also endorsed the convoy,\u201d the NDP\u2019s petition <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ndp.ca\/stop-us-interference?source=20220207_SOC_NEWS_1_AYN_TW_JS_EN_ALL&amp;utm_medium=SOC&amp;utm_source=TW&amp;utm_campaign=News_ALL&amp;utm_content=20220207_SOC_NEWS_1_AYN_TW_JS_EN_ALL\">reads<\/a>, without providing evidence. \u201cAdd your name to protect our democracy by shutting down the flow of foreign funding coming from the US.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Singh himself led the charge to organize an emergency meeting on February 7th to discuss the protests, which at press time has continued uninterrupted in the national capital, Ottawa, for almost three weeks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is clear that this is not a protest; this is an act to try to overthrow the government, and it is getting funded by foreign interference and we need to investigate and stop that,\u201d Singh <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2022\/2\/7\/canada-ndp-leader-trucker-convoy-aims-to-overthrow-govt\">said<\/a> at the time, \u201cstop the flow of that foreign interference, particularly coming from the [United] States.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A poll <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/02\/14\/justin-trudeau-tanks-in-the-polls-with-both-supporters-and-opponents-of-freedom-convoy\/\">published<\/a> this week by the Maru Group firm found that Singh\u2019s message appears to be resonating with Canadians. A majority of respondents in the poll, 67 percent, said they believed the protests were \u201cbeing heavily funded and supported by foreign interests.\u201d The same respondents offered a grim evaluation of Trudeau\u2019s handling of the protests \u2013 only 16 percent said his performance in the job regarding the Freedom Convoy made them want to vote for him, and nearly half said that Trudeau \u201cis not up to the job of being prime minister.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Freedom Convoy protests, which have largely consisted of truckers using their vehicles to block international crossings and major roadways, are demanding the lifting of all civil rights restrictions currently in place in the country in the name of containing the Chinese coronavirus pandemic, including vaccine and mask mandates as well as business lockdowns.<\/p>\n<p><em>Follow Frances Martel on&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/francesimartel\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/francesimartel\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1644678241685000&amp;usg=AOvVaw3AdAAN4PBHBI_nF7GTL2PF\">Facebook<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/francesmartel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/twitter.com\/francesmartel&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1644678241685000&amp;usg=AOvVaw19BVEj8t7I0f4HxW4WTcZW\">Twitter.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Canadian Press revealed on Monday that an alleged hack shows the majority of funds to the civil rights \u201cFreedom Convoy\u201d in the country on the website GiveSendGo come from &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1299934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1299934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1299934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1299934\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1299934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1299934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1299934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}