The fundraiser page of the Canadian Trucker protesters or “Freedom Convoy,” which has been protesting over COVID-19 vaccine mandates and other pandemic restrictions, has been frozen and appears to have been hacked.
Earlier on Monday, Mikael Thalen, a reporter for the Daily Dot, reported that the crowdfunding website is now redirecting to the domain GiveSendGone[.]wtf.
A video from the Disney film Frozen was set as a backdrop to a statement condemning the website and the Freedom Convoy.
Thalen said that a file that allegedly containing tens of thousands of names of Freedom Convoy donors has also been leaked, but that has not been verified.
The website now leads to a blank white page saying “Application under maintenance we will be back very soon.”
GoFundMe took down an original page accepting donations to support the truck drivers in the convoy, which has been associated with the anti-vaccination movement and the far-right.
It comes only days after the official Twitter account for the Freedom Convoy was permanently suspended from the social media site. A spokesperson told Newsweek on February 8, the day of the suspension, that the account was permanently banned for violating the Twitter rules on ban evasion.
The protests started in Western Canada in January, descending on the capital Ottawa on January 28 and blocking the city’s main roads, causing chaos and disruption.
The movement has seen its popularity rise globally, and has spread to multiple countries including France, New Zealand, the U.K. and the U.S.
This is a developing story…