As various CEOs publicly vowed never to hire him, Franco was embraced as a cause célèbre by trolls eager to “tell the truth” about the Jewish people. His newfound fame was followed by newfound fortune: an online fundraiser set up on GiveSendGo to help Franco fend off the “unlawful doxxing” and backlash from his “liberal university.” In the week since, it has raised more than $25,000—a quarter of the fund’s $100,000 goal. He shared his surprise that the fundraiser wasn’t removed by the site. But this wasn’t the case of a bad apple that slipped through the cracks—it was reviewed and greenlit by GiveSendGo.