'Racist' FaceApp photo filters encouraged users to black up

FaceApp has removed a number of racially themed photo filters after being accused of racism. The app, which uses artificial intelligence to edit pictures, this week launched a number of "ethnicity change filters". They claimed to show users what they'd look like if they were Caucasian, Black, Asian or Indian. FaceApp has attracted fierce criticism for launching the filters, with some users claiming they were racist, and encouraged users to "black up" digitally. Responding to the backlash, FaceApp founder and CEO, Yaroslav Goncharov, said, "The ethnicity change filters have been designed to be equal in all aspects. "They don't have any positive or negative connotations associated with them.