To help fight fraud, GoFundMe created an online hub that contains verified fundraising pages related to the L.A.-area wildfires.
Mandy Moore is clapping back at the critics. The actress, 40, is responding to those criticizing her for sharing a GoFundMe for her family members who were affected by the Los Angeles fires.
Mandy Moore shut down critics who took issue after she shared a GoFundMe page dedicated to helping her in-laws, who lost 'everything' amid the ongoing fires in Los Angeles.
Collectively, they’d raised more than $100 million as of Tuesday evening, a GoFundMe spokesperson told me. (The company did not immediately respond when asked where the totals currently stand.) In recent days,
A 93-year-old grandfather lost his Pacific Palisades house — which he’d bought in 1963 with his wife, who recently died — to the devastating wildfires in Los Angeles, leaving him with only a small suitcase of clothes and not a single personal photo or keepsake.
More than $100 million has been donated to victims of the Los Angeles wildfires through GoFundMe campaigns — the popular crowdfunding platform that verifies all accounts to protect against scams.
Attributing some arbitrary amount of money google says someone has is NOT helpful or empathetic,” The “This Is Us” actress wrote on Instagram Thursday.
Mandy Moore didn't hold back on those who questioned her helping out extended family via a GoFundMe amid the L.A. wildfires.
Afterward, Moore shared a few GoFundMe pages on her Instagram account, including her in-laws, who she mentioned were just weeks away from welcoming their first child. This drew ire from followers claiming the actress should donate her own money instead of asking “regular people.” Moore gave the following response in the now-deleted Instagram post:
You want beef with your worst nightmare, which is me right now? You post about Mandy Moore. I will ride for Mandy Moore,” the “Hills” alum said.
Moore's brother-in-law and drummer Griffin "Griff" Goldsmith of the band Dawes took to Instagram to praise Duff for letting Moore stay with her after the family's home was deemed uninhabitable. Moore is married to Dawes singer Taylor Goldsmith and the pair share three children.
Mandy Moore explained why she shared a GoFundMe campaign supporting her relatives who lost their possessions in the Pacific Palisades wildfire