Twitter investigates racial bias in image previews

By 2020-09-21Science & Tech

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image copyrightUS Gov

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image captionOne user found that Twitter seemed to favour showing Mitch McConnell’s face over Barack Obama’s

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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 ... Read even more

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