Apple’s built-in gif feature for its iOS 10 Messages app, used by adults and children alike, is suggesting a sexualised animation of a My Little Pony character bending over and pulling down her underwear for searches for the word “butt”. The new feature is part of Apple’s big revamp of the Messaging app, to bring it in line with competitors such as Facebook Messenger. The gif search, which is a default part of the new Messages, is labeled as being powered by Microsoft’s Bing. A search for “butt” within Facebook Messenger’s built-in gif search does not return the Fluttershy image. But that opening up of the platform, used by millions of children, has increased risk, as demonstrated by the inappropriate gif.

Source: The Guardian September 15, 2016 09:45 UTC