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TikTok Added Beauty Filters to Videos Without Telling Users

Technology Review also spoke to Amy Niu, a PhD candidate at the University of Wisconsin who studies the impact of beauty filters, who said that in China some popular apps automatically add beauty filters. Niu said that apps like WeChat, the most popular social media app in China, and Douyin, the Chinese version of TikTok, include beauty filters on the camera as the default.