FaceApp has removed a feature which changed people's ethnicity in selfies less than 24 hours after updating it.The app, which launched in early 2017, changes photos with filters to make users look older, younger or swap gender. But its latest feature was criticised for being racist within minutes of going live. It allowed people to change their faces to look more black, Asian, Indian or Caucasian in photos.
I kindof want to try this.... I mean, being able to see what I'd look like if I was another race or gender seems like a fundamentally good thing for diversity. Granted, though, calling it a "blackface" app (if that's what they did, that word only appears in the headline) and a " "hot" filter which lightens skin tones" are clearly racist, shite marketing.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/article/40887229/faceapp-launches-blackface-feature-then-deletes-it-after-social-backlash
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