Irreverent atheists crowdsource charitable giving
Atheist bloggers have shown their charitable side by swarming to donate money to Doctors Without Borders, in what turned into the humanitarian agency's biggest online fundraiser.
Doctors Without Borders gets about 4,000 hits on its U.S. website on an average Sunday. Last Sunday that number ballooned to 50,000 as a horde of redditors, subscribers to the social media site reddit.com, thundered across the DWB homepage.
Thousands more clicked through from the atheism sub-reddit, and headed for a dedicated site at firstgiving.com, where they have so far given $180,000.
- Companies:
- Doctors Without Borders
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