Tuesday, 22 September 2020

Twitter investigates racial bias in image previews

Twitter investigates racial bias in image previews

Twitter is investigating after users discovered its picture-cropping algorithm sometimes prefers white faces to black ones. Users noticed when two photos - one of a black face the other of a white one - were in the same post, Twitter often showed only the white face on mobile. Twitter said it had tested for racial and gender bias during the algorithm's development.
Read more: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-54234822?source=Snapzu

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