CAIR’s misleading pitch for Facebook, PayPal matching donations

November 30, 2018   

(IPT) The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) sent out a fundraising email for #GivingTuesday earlier this week claiming that Facebook and PayPal would match up to $7 million in donations to the group.

“Today is Giving Tuesday, a day where you can show your support for the important civil rights and advocacy work that CAIR does every day. Today also, Facebook and PayPal will match up to seven million dollars in donation. So I urge you to support CAIR as much as you can,” CAIR executive director Nihad Awad said in a YouTube video linked to in the solicitation.

But Awad’s plea for donations omitted critical fine print. Facebook and PayPal pledged to match $7 million in donations for all nonprofits that signed up to participate in the program, not just CAIR.

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