AP Break Sales of Stranded Migrants NFT after Twitter excerver

AP Break Sales of Stranded Migrants NFT after Twitter excerver

After a widespread outcry, the Associated Press has destroyed the sale of an NFT video that shows a crowded group of migrants who cling to a rubber boat in the Mediterranean.

The 145-year-old news collective initially campaigned on Twitter for the NFT sale (non-funnable token), which is scheduled to begin on Friday. The AP resigned on Thursday evening in the face of violent criticism on social media.

"Tomorrow at 12 noon on the AP Photography NFT Marketplace, a video by @felipedana is shown by migrants who are driving in a crowded boat in the Mediterranean," wrote the agency in a tweet that has now been deleted.

The sale illuminates questions about journalism as a public service-especially when it comes to open human suffering and injustices-and benefit from these accounts.

"The Associated Press is lost. Journalists of this organization should speak and say:" If we document human suffering, the purpose of informing the world and not benefiting from NFT sales, "said Michael David Smith, editor-in-chief at NBC Sports. tweeted .

The software engineer and web3 author Molly White said the decision to "monetize a video about human suffering", make "every good will that AP could have had for her NFT project, Obsolet".

"The already terrible announcement came at a particularly unfavorable time when you consider that in many Twitter feeds it will be posted next to Russian military actions against Ukraine," said White tweeted .

Lauren Easton, an AP spokeswoman, said Blockworks in a explanation that the NFT was "a bad image selection" that "is or will not be auctioned".

"AP's NFT marketplace is a very early pilot program and we will check our efforts immediately," said Easton. "As a non -profit organization, it is the mission of AP to inform the world with precise, impartial journalism. That remains our main focus."

AP started its photography NFT marketplace for the first time at the end of January and was then announced as a way to give collectors the opportunity to access AP archives and collect unique NFTs-including the pictures of AP ".

The marketplace has been published since then on continuously NFTs, the prices of which are between 219 and $ 1,799. The proceeds go to the non -profit editor.

"The photographers of AP have captured the greatest stories of the world through gripping and moving pictures that have to sustainably sustainably," Dwayne Desulnier, AP director for blockchain and data licensing, told Blockworks. "While new target groups and possibilities arise on-chain and take over the advantages of NFTs, we observe exactly and react to find the right models to present AP-Journalism on-Chain."

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