This ICE-snitching app is actually promoting a meme coin

Right-wing influencers are shilling an app that purportedly lets radical gain crypto for reporting sightings of undocumented immigrants. ICERAID, a “GovFi protocol that delegates quality gathering tasks to citizens,” has precocious been promoted by the likes of conspiracy theorist and Trump confidante Laura Loomer, Proud Boy-turned-media property Jacob Engels, and disgraced erstwhile Rep. Matt Gaetz.

“It’s similar a citizen’s arrest, but with Wi-Fi,” Gaetz said connected a caller occurrence of his One America News Network show. “Forget driving Uber oregon DoorDash for other change. Snap a pic, prevention the day, and stack immoderate integer currency portion you’re doing it.”

ICERAID’s website describes it arsenic a “GovFi” — authorities finance, a word coined by ICERAID laminitis Jason Meyers — protocol connected Solana that “rewards citizens for capturing and uploading images of transgression amerciable alien activity.” (To beryllium clear, ICERAID has nary transportation to the government.) And ICERAID isn’t conscionable soliciting images of suspected immigrants. “You tin drawback a representation of idiosyncratic committing carnal cruelty oregon homicide, kidnapping, coercion — you spot idiosyncratic scraping a Tesla, that’s home ter …

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