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Snapchat Removes Filter Amid Claims of Racial Insensitivity

Snapchat has removed a filter for photos that some say promoted racist Asian stereotypes. The social media app's filters, also called lenses, allow users to change their appearance with silly faces or morph themselves into cartoonish animals and other characters. A filter that Snapchat says was inspired by Japanese animation placed slanted eyes on a user's face. The filter was quickly derided by Snapchat users on Twitter. One Asian-American user, Grace Sparapani, tells The...

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