Buyers find racist images with N-words on Amazon Products – Buyers who use the Amazon site facing England and the list of applications found have replaced product images with rude messages that contain several examples of N-words. The appearance of Racist messages on several Amazon products and the message sparked anger on Twitter, with the topic “AirPods” trending in the UK.
On Sunday morning the picture does not appear on the Amazon UK website. An Amazon spokesman said that he had deleted the picture “and has taken action on bad actors.” It is not clear who the bad actors are, and whether there are security breaches involved.
Amazon said it had removed racist language images from several headphone listings on its British website, The Financial Times reported. Users post screenshots to Twitter on search results for “AirPods” and “bluetooth headphones” that appear on e-commerce sites. Instead of photos of headphones, search results show images that contain N-words.
The list appears to be limited to the English site, and appears on the pages of new Amazon sellers, most of which have little or no customer reviews.
Amazon.com Inc. (AMZN.O) said it had deleted certain images after messages using very strong racist abuse appeared on several listings on its UK website when users searched for Apple AirPods (AAPL.O) and other similar products.
“We are deleting the pictures and have taken action against the evil actor,” said an Amazon spokesman but he did not elaborate on “evil actors”.
With screenshots and video shows from trending on Twitter, users share images. Lists with abusive messages are no longer visible on the Amazon UK website and it is unclear how long they were there.
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