crowdfunding
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Facebook’s Patreon Clone Wants To Pocket Up To Six Times As Much Of The Revenue As Patreon
Facebook is gunning for creator-subscription service Patreon’s business—but on much less generous terms.
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GoFundMe Set Up For Fyre Festival Victim Raises More Than $150,000 In Days
A pair of dueling Fyre Festival documentaries — one on Hulu and one on Netflix — are giving viewers a better idea of how a festival-turned-shitshow managed to so badly botch its spectacular promise of being one of the greatest events the world had ever known. While countless people were burned by the scam, Maryann…
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‘Goat Fund Me’ Campaign Wants To Raise Money For Firefighting Goats
California’s devastating bushfires are now simply a way of life for residents — and things will likely only get worse. Since the US president’s solution for combating these climate change-fuelled disasters is to threaten to cut FEMA funding for the state, local governments are taking matters into their own hands. The plan: Goat Fund Me.
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Take A Perilous Journey Into Europa’s Ocean In This Science Fiction Book For Kids
Humans have long been warned about Europa, from HAL 9000’s infamous “ATTEMPT NO LANDING THERE” in 2010: Odyssey Two to the more recent indie film Europa Report, where a group of scientists do land on the icy moon, only meet a grisly fate at the hands of a decidedly unwelcoming resident. None of that, however,…