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A weather report by ABC News 13’s Justin Hinton became unintentionally humorous after he accidentally activated Facebook’s filters feature before a Facebook Live segment. The mishap gave Hinton googly eyes, a wizard hat and beard, a gold medal and more.

News 13 published a story about the blooper, along with a Facebook post:

Facebook Live blooper

When you're trying to do a serious Facebook Live about the weather and you accidentally tap the Mystery Mask filter. Poor Justin Hinton. 🤣More on this story: http://bit.ly/2PexYkK

Posted by WLOS ABC 13 on Thursday, February 20, 2020

Hinton posted the misshap to his Facebook page as well, along with the backstory:

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