Online wags got their claws out after a politician in Pakistan live-streamed his press conference on Facebook with the cat filter turned on, meaning he appeared with whiskers and ears. After countless quips were made about him on social media, Shaukat Yousafzai said: “The cat filter was turned on by mistake, let’s not take everything so seriously”.
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