Faceapp withdraws its new racist filters after online protests

FaceApp is the application that became famous with the filter of aging your face. Thanks to that, it gained a lot of popularity among users. And it was adding more functions that allowed you to make changes to your face and add effects to it. An entertaining and harmless application.

FaceApp withdraws its new racist filters after online protests

FaceApp recently introduced its new update in which a series of new filters were introduced. Filters that have caused quite a stir on social networks. Such has been the pressure that FaceApp has ended up removing these filters despite the fact that its CEO continues to defend their use.

FaceApp removes racist filters

The filters in question are "Caucasian", "black", "Indian" or "Asian". As its name suggests, they serve to transform the person's face and change your race. A topic that is very controversial and that many have branded as racist and not very sensitive. Especially if we take into account the enormous racial debate that exists in some countries such as the United States today.

Therefore, after the publication of the filters, social networks have been quick to criticize the company. The CEO of FaceApp has defended the filters. He has said that there is no positive or negative connotation in them. But his words have not helped anything. In fact they have provoked even more reactions.

So a few hours after the statements by the CEO of FaceApp, the filters have completely disappeared from the application. With this they seek to end all the controversy that has arisen so far. We do not know if they will succeed. So we will have to wait and see if there are more reactions. What do you think of these filters?