Pakistan Minister Gets Ears and Whiskers After ‘Cat Filter’ Left on During Live Broadcast

Pakistan Minister Gets Ears and Whiskers After ‘Cat Filter’ Left on During Live Broadcast
Pakistani children point at a computer screen showing a screen grab of a press conference attended by provincial minister Shaukat Yousafzai and streamed live on social media, in Islamabad on June 15, 2019. Farooq Neem/AFP/Getty Images
Simon Veazey
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A regional minister appeared on screen with cat ears, nose, and whiskers for several minutes of a live press conference in Pakistan before his media team realized they had left the “cat filter” switched on.

Live filter software allows phones and computers to superpose all kinds of graphics—including cat ears—on people’s faces in videos in real-time at the touch of a finger or click of a mouse.

Simon Veazey
Simon Veazey
Freelance Reporter
Simon Veazey is a UK-based journalist who has reported for The Epoch Times since 2006 on various beats, from in-depth coverage of British and European politics to web-based writing on breaking news.
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