When this fundraiser was created on January 14, it was within our acceptable terms of use. There was nothing in our original diligence around the fundraiser organizer or anything in the campaign content that suggested that it violated our terms. The donation velocity is what caused it to get the attention of our internal teams. The next day, we started communicating with the fundraiser organizer and her team. It was on January 27, as Mr. Benitez said, that we initiated the $1-million distribution from the campaign.
On January 31, our teams became aware of a statement by Ottawa police that caused us to want to reach out and talk to them to receive credible information about what was actually occurring. There was a lot of misinformation around this campaign and GoFundMe's role in it, so we were trying to get credible, consistent information from the authorities on the ground.
On February 2, our team spoke to local law enforcement and interim police chief Bell. On February 3, I spoke to Mayor Watson. On February 4, we again spoke to the local police in Ottawa.
However, as Mr. Benitez said, that first conversation with the local police is when we suspended the campaign on February 2. That stopped it from accepting any future donations and stopped any future disbursements from going out. We continued to do our diligence until we realized it had violated our terms and removed it from the platform on February 4.