The Pakistani Information Minister Shaukat Yousafzai was ridiculed after his social media team inadvertently turned on the “cat filter” during a Facebook livestream of a press briefing.
Facebook users watching the briefings notified the social media team of their mistake.
“Shaukat Yousafzai looks like a cat — Meow meow meow,” one user said.
“A cat in the cabinet,” another said.
While the stream was deleted minutes after the briefing, internet users took screen shots of the livestream to make fun of the minister.
According to KP government’s social media team we now have a cat in the cabinet #Filter pic.twitter.com/LNl7zwOfLU
— Mansoor Ali Khan (@_Mansoor_Ali) June 14, 2019
So Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province government forgot to turn off cat filters when live streaming their press conference and this is giving me life pic.twitter.com/g5Wwvv9978
— Pádraig Belton (@PadraigBelton) June 15, 2019
Pakistan’s ruling party shared a government live on Facebook, but accidentally added a cat filter onto it. This was the result. ?? pic.twitter.com/XGtiGYo2De
— Firas El Echi (@FirasElEchi10) June 16, 2019
The provincial government of Pakistan’s #KhyberPakhtunkhwa
accidentally turned on a cat filter during a Facebook Live press conference.My favourite quote; ‘people started messaging the page admin to disable the filter as the politician had turned into a cat.’ pic.twitter.com/kWuQAvHp8J
— Daniel Holland (@DannyDutch) June 17, 2019
Live-streaming of a provincial govt’s press conference in Pakistan turns a lot cuter when they accidentally switched on the cat filter. pic.twitter.com/Z1EOHkKyd6
— Rehmatullah Sheikh (@Sheikh_Rehmat) June 15, 2019
The PTI, the ruling party in Pakistan, issued a statement on their Twitter account that said their “social media team is deemed to be the pioneers of Social Media in Pakistan” but said the “cat filter” was a “human error” which was not up to their standards and etiquette.
“All necessary actions have been taken to avoid such incident in future,” the PTI said. The added they would put “great emphasis” on enforcing their protocol.
Clarification regarding coverage of Press Briefing held by KP’s Information Minister Shoukat Yousafzai: #PTISMT pic.twitter.com/Oudb9r3lGz
— PTI (@PTIofficial) June 15, 2019
Yousafzai is the regional minister in northwestern Pakistan.
