---
title: "Politician Accidentally Rocks AR Kitty Ears During Livestream"
description: "A pakistani politician unknowingly gave a press conference while a Facebook AR filter gave him cute cat ears during the livestream."
date: "2019-06-18"
modified: "2019-06-18"
authors:
  - name: "Dan Robitzski"
    link: "https://futurism.com/authors/danrobitzski"
url: "https://futurism.com/the-byte/politician-ar-filter-conference"
categories:
  - "Future Society"
  - "Virtual Reality"
tags:
  - "augmented reality"
  - "the digest"
---

# Politician Accidentally Rocks AR Kitty Ears During Livestream

![A pakistani politician unknowingly gave a press conference while a Facebook AR filter gave him cute cat ears during the livestream.](<https://futurism.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/pakistani-official-ar-filter-conference.jpg>)
*\<em\>Image: Mohsin Bilal Khan/Twitter/Victor Tangermann\</em\>*

## Here Kitty Kitty

A Pakistani politician got an unexpected makeover during his press conference last week.

Shaukat Yousafzai, the Minister for Health and Information in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, accidentally enabled one of Facebook's [AR filters](<https://futurism.com/the-byte/ar-facebook-augmented-reality>) while livestreaming the event, [according to *CNN*](<https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/17/asia/pakistan-politician-cat-filter-scli-intl/index.html>) — specifically, the one that superimposes cute little cat ears and whiskers over people's faces.

## Press The Any Key

Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, the political party that Yousafzai represents, later [issued a statement](<https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D9GEFypW4AAcsGX.jpg>) blaming the adorable mixup on a volunteer's "human error," and now the video exists only [through screengrabs](<https://twitter.com/MohsinBilalKhan/status/1139554505060757509>) that [people shared online](<https://twitter.com/Ahsan_H_Durrani/status/1139573195932078080>).

https://twitter.com/Ahsan_H_Durrani/status/1139573195932078080

Yousafzai took the accident — or prank — in stride, because there's not much someone can really do at that point. He later joked about the incident with *Agence France-Presse*, per *CNN*.

"I wasn't the only one — two officials sitting along me were also hit by the cat filter," he told *AFP*

**READ MORE:** [Accidental cat filter derails political press conference](<https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/17/asia/pakistan-politician-cat-filter-scli-intl/index.html>) \[*CNN*\]

**More on AR:** *[The Military is Developing Augmented Reality Night Vision Goggles](<https://futurism.com/the-byte/us-military-augmented-reality-night-vision-goggles>)*

## Author
Dan Robitzki is a senior reporter for Futurism, where he likes to cover AI, tech ethics, and medicine. He spends his extra time fencing and streaming games from Los Angeles, California.

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