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Germany wants ads, influencers to be careful about the use of beauty filters

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BERLIN (AP) —German state officials said on Friday that advertisers and social media influential people would like to label photos with so-called beauty filters.

Critics argue that filters that provide an easy way to modify images and remove possible scratches promote unrealistic standards of beauty, especially between women and girls. I am.

dpa's press quoted Katharina Fegebank, Hamburg's Minister of Equality, saying that digital tools should not judge what is considered beautiful.

The majority of officials in 16 German states have enacted legislation requiring the federal government to label images and videos with beauty filters to emphasize human faces, skin and hair. I want to do it.

This is reportedly true for commercial ads and influencers with a significant number of followers, Fegebank said.