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GoFundMe

GoFundMe is a crowdfunding platform where people raise money for themselves or others.

Key facts

Essential expenses: Its 2025 review found essential-expense fundraising up 20%, Newsweek reportedsource
Monthly bills: Monthly bills were the second-fastest-growing category on the site, Newsweek reportedsource
Medical campaigns: A study of more than 437,000 medical campaigns found that in 2020 only 12% met their goals and 16% received nothing, Newsweek reportedsource

WYDE coverage of GoFundMe

WYDE Newsroom has published one article about GoFundMe, on Oct 30, 2026. GoFundMe is the subject of 1 story. The most recent is Creator's Fake Apple Pay Prank Backfires as Red Baron Worker's GoFundMe Tops $600,000.

Philanthropy

Creator's Fake Apple Pay Prank Backfires as Red Baron Worker's GoFundMe Tops $600,000

An Instagram account faked a $10 theft from a Michigan father of four stocking pizzas. Strangers have since given more than $600,000, Red Baron backed him, and the account is gone. Most fundraisers never see that.

Oct 30, 2026 · 4 min read · Subject of the story

Reported alongside GoFundMe

Higgsfield · in 1 story with GoFundMe
Red Baron · in 1 story with GoFundMe
Vivek Ramaswamy · in 1 story with GoFundMe

Sources

Newsweek: The Red Baron Dad Got Lucky. That's the Problem

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