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US intelligence officials worry that the Islamic State could use NFTs to spread messages and evade censorship, after IS posted its first NFT following an attack

National-security analysts see potentially dangerous platform for recruiting and funding  —  WASHINGTON—A simple digital …

Wall Street Journal Ian Talley

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  • @counternotions Kontra on x
    Islamic State and NFTs...a marriage made in, ahem, heaven? https://www.wsj.com/... ↓ https://twitter.com/...
  • @antoniogm @antoniogm on x
    I always thought crypto's first big ‘content moderation’ blow-up would be someone putting Some Very Bad Thing on chain, thus making it both non-deletable and replicated on machines worldwide. Well, here we are....ISIS is minting NFTs now. https://www.wsj.com/...
  • @markdistef Mark Di Stefano on x
    ‘this is the one thing we didnt want to happen’ https://www.wsj.com/... https://twitter.com/...
  • @antoniogm @antoniogm on x
    It's heartening that the various influencers of the Moderation Industrial Complex will also be able to expand into Web 3, and promulgate their various content theologies there too. wagmi https://twitter.com/...
  • @arawnsley Adam Rawnsley on x
    Hot take: terrorists groups getting into NFTs is a good thing. Encourage them to put a bunch of money in a giant scam and watch it burn. https://twitter.com/...
  • @mchrisriley Chris Riley on x
    This is really interesting alongside Kiwifarms/Cloudflare. Drives home the separation between darkweb + blockchain equivs, where things can't be controlled, and the points of intersection with the internet/web where normal people browse, where things absolutely can be controlled.…