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FILE - A billboard displays the logo of Snapchat above Times Square in New York. Share * [44]Share on Facebook * [45]Share on Twitter * [46]Share on Google+ * [47]Email to a Friend (Submit) Print LOS ANGELES ' Snapchat has removed a filter for photos that some say promoted racist Asian stereotypes. The social media app's filters, also called lenses, allow users to change their appearance with silly faces or morph themselves into cartoonish animals and other characters. A filter that Snapchat says was inspired by Japanese animation placed slanted eyes on a user's face. The filter was quickly derided by Snapchat users on Twitter. One Asian-American user, Grace Sparapani, tells The Associated Press in a Twitter message she was "shocked by how much it looked like the classic cartoon caricatures of Asians ' squinty eyes and buckteeth." Los Angeles-based Snapchat tells USA Today the filter has been taken down and won't be used again. 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