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Microsoft Sorry It Changed Man's Race In Photo |
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Written by Jonathan Higbee |
Wednesday, 26 August 2009
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| Tags: race, microsoft, controversies |
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In a ballsy move that Microsoft employees perhaps believed would go unnoticed, a white man’s head was inexplicably Photoshopped (rather crudely, even) over a black model’s on the company’s Polish website. The gaffe understandably incited an intense backlash, with Microsoft returning the model to his true race and quickly issuing an apology.
“We apologize,” a Microsoft representative told CNET. “We are looking into the details of the situation.”
Here is the original photo, as appearing on the US website:
And the photo that appeared in Poland, before being removed:
What do you think of the blunder?
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