GoFundMe says it’s banning fundraising efforts on behalf of the man who allegedly drove his car into protesters at the recent Charlottesville white supremacist rally. GoFundMe communications director Bobby Whithorne tells Reuters that the platform has removed several fundraising campaigns for James Fields, who is accused of killing anti-racist protester Heather Heyer and injuring 19 others. “Those campaigns did not raise any money and they were immediately removed,” he says. Whithorne says that fewer than 10 campaigns had been created so far, and any future efforts will also be shut down, on the grounds of violating GoFundMe’s rules against promoting hate speech and violence.

This ban is part of a crackdown on white supremacist content…

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