A discomfiting TikTok filter has shown users what they look like with a hooked nose, prompting a wave of controversy online. The filter gives users a large nose with a prominent bridge, a feature historically associated with people of Jewish, Middle Eastern, South Asian and Native American descent. The "Jewish nose" has been a persistent element of antisemitic stereotypes since the 13th century, according to the Media Diversity Institute, and was ubiquitous in Nazi propaganda during the 1930s. Today, a TikTok trend features participants showing their faces with a filter-generated hooked nose, then switching to their actual noses—typically much smaller...
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