Amazon Has Allowed Anti-LGBT Groups to Raise Money on Its Donations Platform
The online shopping giant has given many anti-LGBT groups a fundraising platform despite its anti-discrimination policy.
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Amazon has emerged as one of the few winners during the coronavirus pandemic because lockdown, infection fears and the closure of physical shops have encouraged online shopping. The company has seen profits rise almost 50%, compared to last year.
“Experience feel-good shopping” is the slogan of the AmazonSmile programme, which enables customers to donate to charities as they shop online. Amazon says the programme has facilitated $215 million in such donations since its launch in 2013.
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The program allows customers to donate to charities when shopping on Amazon.
This included one organization that said COVID-19 was the consequential wrath of God for behavior including proclivity toward lesbianism and homosexuality.
AmazonSmile s participation agreement says organizations that promote hate and intolerance are not eligible for its program. When asked whether any of the groups identified in the report would lose their eligibility, Amazon declined to comment.
Dozens of anti-LGBT organizations have been able to fundraise through Amazon s charitable donation program AmazonSmile, according to a new report from Open Democracy.
This included one organization that described the COVID-19 pandemic as the consequential wrath of God for behavior including proclivity toward lesbianism and homosexuality, Open Democracy said although it didn t name the organization in question.
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More than 40 anti-LGBT organizations were found fundraising on Amazon s charity program - and Amazon won t say it if plans to remove them
More than 40 anti-LGBT organizations were found fundraising on Amazon s charity program - and Amazon won t say it if plans to remove them
Isobel Asher HamiltonDec 22, 2020, 19:34 IST
Amazon s website hosted anti-LGBT organisations as part of its Amazon Smile program.Ttatty/Shutterstock
Anti-LGBT organizations have been able to fundraise through
Amazon s charitable donation program
AmazonSmile, a new report from nonprofit Open Democracy says.
The program allows customers to donate to charities when shopping on Amazon.
This included one organization that said COVID-19 was the consequential wrath of God for behavior including proclivity toward lesbianism and homosexuality.