By noon on June 13th, the online fundraiser had accrued more than $1.6 million.Īccording to the U.S.
By early evening on June 12th, Florida-based LGBT advocacy group Equality Florida had raised over $480,000 for the victims via GoFundMe in six hours. The massacre immediately sent shock waves across the mainstream news and social media in the United States, prompting a nationwide debate concerning Islam, gun control and LGBTQ rights. Although the image is doctored, the image has stirred outrage against the comedian on sites like Reddit and 4chan. In the morning after the attack, a image purporting to be a tweet from comedian John Oliver asking people to 'think of all the GOOD things Islam has given us' spread on social media. In it, it claimed that the perceived censorship was due to an overly exuberant reaction to brigading, vote manipulation, and the sheer amount of information being posted as well as the automod responding to 'already submitted' content. As more concerns came up over the /r/news moderation team, such as discovering deleted comments containing information for things like blood donation, a thread was made to discuss and respond to them by moderator hoosakiwi.
