It also casts doubt on Facebook’s Messenger Kids app, which also has Giphy integration that is only supposed to show G-rated imagery. The incident is embarrassing for Instagram’s parent company Facebook. The slip-up could deter Snapchat from working more with outside developers, which it’s only recently allowed to bring content into its app via its Lens Studio and the Giphy integration. A s all the fast paced industry’s players race to be the first to bring tech developments to consumers (think AI and wearable tech) – they will be hiring, in some capacity or another, outside contractors to get the projects across the line (and in some cases even off the ground).Ī Techcrunch article on the issue succinctly summarises why this is A Big Deal: “Snapchat risks an unsavory reputation if it can’t keep its content under control. But it also calls into question the ability of Snapchat and Facebook (which of course owns Insta) to work with outside contractors. Why? Well something like this is *appalling* and how it got through the Giphy moderation process is astounding. The slip up is not only a reminder to moderate your content – it also has the potential to slow down some of the new innovations being rapidly explored by the tech giants. Until recently when a very, very, very racist animated cartoon crept through Giphy’s moderators and the third party application was pulled from arguably the three biggest social media platforms in the world, or the western world at least. A hilarious addition to Facebook Messenger, Instagram Stories and Snapchat, these short, looped videos (moving memes!) have, objectively, brought oh so much joy to this world. Recently we were distraught to see Gifs disappear from our favourite social media platforms. Social media can giveth and, boy, how it can taketh away.
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