This ICE-snitching app is actually promoting a meme coin
Right-wing influencers are shilling an app that purportedly lets people earn crypto for reporting sightings of undocumented immigrants. ICERAID, a aGovFi protocol that delegates intelligence gathering tasks to citizens,a has recently been promoted by the likes of conspiracy theorist and Trump confidante Laura Loomer, Proud Boy-turned-media personality Jacob Engels, and disgraced former Rep. Matt Gaetz.
aItas like a citizenas arrest, but with Wi-Fi,a Gaetz said on a recent episode of his One America News Network show. aForget driving Uber or DoorDash for extra change. Snap a pic, save the day, and stack some digital cash while youare doing it.a
ICERAIDas website describes it as a aGovFia a government finance, a term coined by ICERAID founder Jason Meyers a protocol on Solana that arewards citizens for capturing and uploading images of criminal illegal alien activity.a (To be clear, ICERAID has no connection to the government.) And ICERAID isnat just soliciting images of suspected immigrants. aYou can snap a picture of someone committing animal cruelty or homicide, kidnapping, terrorism a you see someone scraping a Tesla, thatas domestic ter …