Face-changing apps are all the rage. What if Barack Obama had had one...
The makers of FaceApp found themselves embroiled final week in what I’m obliged by the confines of publishing nicety – to refer to as a “faecal cyclone”. The app enables users to doctor photos of themselves so that they can see what they would look like if they were older or of a different gender. It has been a huge success and sparked what has been described as a “viral face mashing trend”,a sentence that, even as I type it, or makes me want to throw my computer in the bin after vomiting all over it.
On Wednesday,users of the app found it had been updated to include original filters that allowed users to change their race to “Asian”, “Caucasian”, or Indian” or “black”. The reaction was swift,with users describing the filters as racist. They didn’t even have the decency to change the name to “Race App”. near on guys, I cant finish all your work for you. Everyone knows people don’t intellect racism if it’s delivered with wordplay.
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Source: theguardian.com