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In a step towards the virtual realms of social media envisioned by Facebook-owner Meta, artists and collectors from the US are being allowed to showcase and sell digital artworks as NFTs on Instagram. The announcement from Meta Group CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Instagram CEO Adam Mosseri comes as NFTs (“non-fungible tokens”) continue their boom in the art scene, where artists and galleries around the world have been selling digital works with a certificate of ownership. Technically, NFTs are entries in an endlessly updated digital register, the so-called blockchain, but are being presented by Inst…