Posted on 08/30/2018 9:21:41 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
Snap, the company behind Snapchat, apologized on Thursday after its map feature mislabeled New York City as “Jewtropolis.”
Snap said that the incident was due to vandalism of data from OpenStreetMap, a service that allows users to edit and submit information to build its maps.
"Snap Map, similar to other apps, relies on third-party mapping data from OpenStreetMap, which unfortunately has been vandalized,” a Snap spokesperson said in a statement. “This defacement is deeply offensive and entirely contrary to our values, and we want to apologize to any members of our community who saw it. As soon as we were alerted to this, we began working with our partner Mapbox to fix it, and it is now corrected on the Snap Map."
OpenStreetMap did not immediately respond when asked for comment.
But according to Buzzfeed News, OpenStreetMap’s site was not showing the name “Jewtropolis” for New York on Thursday morning, while a demo map from Mapbox was. Mapbox partners with companies like Snap to provide location data platforms, according to its website.
“This morning, the label of ‘New York City’ on our maps was vandalized,” the company said in a blog post on Medium. “Within an hour, our team deleted and removed that information. The malicious edit was made by a source that attempted several other hateful edits. Our security team has confirmed no additional attempts were successful.”
Mapbox added that it was considering changes to prevent similar vandalism in the future.
Crowd-sourced maps. What could possibly go wrong?
Its ok. They are democrats. So all they need to do is apologize and all is forgiven. Like Les Moonves who locks girls in his office, demanding sex if they want their acting jobs on one of his networks. He just says I am sorry. And all is forgiven. Those girls did not mind. The girls that never worked again in TV nor the girls who should have gotten jobs but did not because the BJ girls like his wife took jobs they did not deserve.
Snap is the same. Its ok to hate the jews as long as you apologize and vote democrat. Plus it does not hurt if you throw a little cash around to Planned Parenthood.
i don’t see anything wrong here... jews live there it might offend the non jews, but if i were jewish, i wouldn’t mind jewtropolis.
Oy vey! LOL
Cram your phony apology and stop pretending you care. it’s offensive.
I wonder how accurate the 1899 figures are. Some state totals seem higher than you would expect, especially in the South. The 1890 census records were lost so the last census rolls with names on them had been in 1880, 19 years before (but another census was taken in 1900).
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