Snap's head of diversity apologizes for Juneteenth filter

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Today that prospect nears, but is still so new it doesn't have a widely agreed-upon name: cultured meat, clean meat, cultivated meat or, data hk to the irritation of some companies developing it, lab-grown meat. "The products that consumers purchase will be produced in facilities similar to beer breweries, not labs," says Audrey Taylor of Memphis Meats. "While it is true that labs are involved during our research and development phase, that is also true for virtually all packaged products available today."

The tech mogul, 42, was being interviewed by the Australian Financial Review magazine about 'Atlassian Central', an ambitious project being built in Sydney that's set to become the company's new headquarters. 

King said the Snapchat team felt it was acceptable for Black people to celebrate the end of slavery as many do with Juneteenth picnics, BBQs and parties across the US. "However for a White person to tell a Black person: 'Smile! You're no longer slaves' is offensive in the extreme," wrote King. 

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PARIS, Dec 8 (Reuters) - French President Emmanuel Macron plans to launch a consultation in January to review ways to improve conditions under which the police operate and relations with the population.

Digital strategist and former journalist Mark Luckie posted a video to Twitter on Friday that shows the Snapchat filter (also known as a Lens) in action. Luckie, who's Black, said the filter was, "um...interesting." 

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The consultation - named the "Beauvau de la securite", after Place Beauvau, the Parisian square on which France's interior ministry is located, will review issues ranging from police training and staffing, to using video equipment during operations and relations with the population.

"It is urgent to act to beef up the trust between the French and the police forces while also give police and gendarmes the means to meet their commitments and the expectations of our citizen," Macron wrote in a letter addressed to the SGP Police FO union and seen by Reuters.

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France has been hit by a wave of street protests after the government introduced a security bill in parliament that set out to increase its surveillance tools and restrict rights on circulating images of police officers in the media and online.

Snap last week removed a Juneteenth filter from its Snapchat app after some on social media called the filter tone-deaf. The filter, which featured a pan-African flag and the message "Juneteeth Freedom Day," prompted users to smile to break chains. 

"We deeply apologize to the members of the Snapchat community who found this Lens offensive," a Snap spokesperson told CNET. "A diverse group of Snap team members were involved in developing the concept, but a version of the Lens that went live for Snapchatters this morning had not been approved through our review process. We are investigating why this mistake occurred so that we can avoid it in the future."

TREBES, France, March 23 (Reuters) - An attacker in southern France killed someone with a bullet in the head in the city of Carcassonne before taking hostages in the nearby town of Trebes, said Bruno Bartocetti, the regional representative of the SGP police union.

"I'm hoping many people will understand how the same word can be appropriate in one context, but inappropriate in another, depending on who is using it," wrote King. "Regardless, we should not have used smiling as a trigger to break the chains of slavery in the Lens, and we understand why that was offensive."

Snap has in the past. In 2017, the company's of the Nobel prize-winning chemist Marie Curie featured long eyelashes and smoky eyeliner along with beakers and test tubes. People on social media called the full face of makeup unnecessary, and both historically and scientifically inaccurate. In 2016, the company got into trouble over its , which let people combine features of the late singer's face with features of their own -- which critics said amounted to digital blackface.