Over the past few months, Instagram has stolen all of Snapchat’s major features, including Stories and ephemeral direct messaging. Face filters was the last remaining headline Snapchat capability not ...

After rolling out a custom camera earlier this year, Google Messages now offer face filters. You can launch the fullscreen camera from the app bar on the home screen or inside a conversation. There’s ...

Beauty founder and content creator Charlotte Palermino noticed something weird about the front-facing camera in TikTok. She had just updated the app and hadn’t added any filters, but she didn’t look ...

This is an excerpt from Please Like Me, BuzzFeed News’ newsletter about how influencers are battling for your attention. You can sign up here. It may feel like decades ago but it was actually in 2015 ...

The two TikTok filters are incredibly convincing attempts at changing your face, and they could be fueled by machine learning. Reading time 3 minutes TikTok is really good at keeping users entertained ...

Aged 13, I became obsessed with taking selfies. I would pout and post and watch the likes roll in. Rinse and repeat. Except what I was capturing on my phone’s camera wasn’t actually me – it was a ...