Attorneys General Demand Answers After GoFundMe’s Unauthorized Charity Pages Scandal
Nonprofit News Feed’s Nicholas Azulay reported on the coalition of 22 state Attorneys General, led by California Attorney General Rob Bonta, demanding GoFundMe remove 1.4 million donation pages created for charities without their knowledge or consent. Whole Whale was credited for independently auditing GoFundMe’s XML sitemap files and confirming the removal of the SEO optimizations behind the unauthorized “shadow” pages.
Excerpt of the Whole Whale mention:
The coalition of 22 states has given GoFundMe 14 days to prove it has removed the unauthorized pages and to demonstrate new verification procedures for charity consent. Investigative requests from individual states are expected to follow.
Note that Whole Whale, a leading nonprofit-focused digital agency has audited and confirmed that GoFundeMe has removed the SEO optimizations in their XML files.
