Crypto hucksters push AI image to make profit off subway fire victim

This weekend, a man set fire to a woman inside a subway car in Brooklyn.

The suspect was arrested hours later in Manhattan, but the woman, who was sleeping in the subway train at the time of the attack, has yet to be formally identified.

Given the suspect’s status as an illegal immigrant, people across social media rushed to post a fake image of a white woman to gin up sympathy and push anti-immigrant sentiments.

In the process, they’re getting played by cryptocurrency hucksters.