‘Profiting off suffering’: AP cancels sale of migrant boat NFT amid backlash
by Matthew Cantor from Technology | The Guardian on (#5WG3X)
The news agency has since deleted the tweet promoting the sale and called it poor choice of imagery'
The Associated Press has withdrawn plans to sell a video of migrants drifting in an overcrowded boat in the Mediterranean" as an NFT after facing a backlash online.
The news outlet's Thursday tweet advertising the clip, which came as Russia's invasion raised fears of widespread displacement of Ukrainians, provoked accusations that the AP was seeking to profit off of suffering.
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