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and it's mostly the same $9m, after Gofundme refunded everyone.

Of the ~90k GiveSendGo donors, ~35k were from Canada. Population: 36-38m.




The cause that raised 9 million dollars in a few days is a "a tiny minority of truckers [...] making a huge fuss over really very little"... because someone somewhere claims that they've seen a data dump of hacked donation data... and their "analysis" demonstrates that the movement has wide international support. Reddit logic at its finest.


The leaked data has been seen by many news organisations and individuals. I calculated the figures I gave - not "someone somewhere".

Here's one of the top donors confirming their entry was accurate: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/nb-sussex-corne...




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