'Gorillas': Google Photos uses racist tag on black friends, provoking backlash

By Tim Biggs
Updated July 14 2015 - 10:08am, first published July 2 2015 - 2:29pm
"Y'all f...ed up": Jacky Alcine's tweet shows selfies with his friend automatically sorted into a folder tagged "Gorillas". Photo: twitter.com/jackyalcine
"Y'all f...ed up": Jacky Alcine's tweet shows selfies with his friend automatically sorted into a folder tagged "Gorillas". Photo: twitter.com/jackyalcine

Google has issued an apology after a man took to Twitter to show the company's new photo app had added photos of his dark-skinned friend to an album tagged "gorillas".

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