Several popular apps, including Snapchat, found themselves the target of social media outrage on Thursday morning after some users noticed that New York had been renamed “Jewtropolis” on its maps feature. The company responded on Twitter by noting that it doesn’t power its own maps. It said the maps are powered by Mapbox, an open-source platform that says it receives data from over 1 million developers. The controversy highlights ongoing issues facing open-source platforms, which are not always subject to strict moderation. “Snap Map, similar to other apps, relies on third party mapping data from OpenStreetMap, which unfortunately has been vandalized,” the company told HuffPost in an emailed statement.

Source: Huffington Post August 30, 2018 13:38 UTC