How digital beauty filters perpetuate colorism

They've brought the skin-lightening debate back. Colourism has a long and sordid history. From the preferential treatment of lighter-skinned enslaved people to promoting modern skin-bleaching beauty products to darker-skinned women, this might seem like an ancient form of prejudice. Still, artificial intelligence is bringing it to the fore once again. Tate Ryan-Mosley explores how the beautifying filters on apps like Snapchat and Instagram lighten and smooth the skin and how the impact is regurgitating trauma for communities of colour.