Instagram, Snapchat remove Giphy support over racist GIF.
Popular photo and video sharing apps, Instagram and Snapchat temporarily removed their Gippa GIF sticker features, saw the extremely racist GIF as an alternative to adding users to their pictures.
"As soon as we were made aware, we removed the GIF and disabled the vulture, until we can not ensure that it will not happen again ... when we look at the team of Gifa Waiting, "Techcrunch said referring to a Snapchat spokesman.
The same racist GIF was seen on Instagram, it shows that the Gipa is a mistake here. "This type of material has no place on Instagram. We have stopped our integration with the vulture with the investigation of this issue," said Instagram.
GIF included troubled lessons, including a racial slur.
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"We should not have seen this in the GIF Snapchat. Our team has worked with Gifi and it has removed GIF and it should not be seen anymore." A spokesperson for Snap Inc. said, quoting ,
"We are in the process of removing Gipahi from our application, unless we can not assure that it will never happen again," the spokesman said.
A 21-year-old snapchat user from England first saw the animation of racism in the library.
GIF "seems to suggest that millions of people are killed due to black people, due to which the number is increasingly increasing."
According to TechCrunch, Gif is a mistake that was shown in the Instagram, owned by a similar racist GIF Facebook.
"This type of material has no place on Instagram. We have stopped our integration with the vulture with the investigation of this issue," an Instagram spokesman said according to TechCrunch.
Both Snapchat and Instagram had introduced the feature in February which allows users to include GIFs from the media repository Gippa in their snap and "Stories".
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