Twitter has largely abandoned an image-cropping algorithm after determining the automated system was biased. Some users complained it had a preference toward showing pictures of white people in ...

At Twitter's Contest to Discover Bias in Image Crop Algorithms, Swiss researchers prove that 'whiter / thinner / younger / more feminine priorities' Won the championship. The contest also proved that ...

"How to crop an image is a decision best made by people." After social media exploded with allegations that Twitter's image-cropping algorithm had a racial bias, the company said it investigated and ...

(Reuters) - Twitter Inc said on Friday it will launch a competition for computer researchers and hackers to identify biases in its image-cropping algorithm, after a group of researchers previously ...

LONDON – Twitter says it’s investigating why its picture-cropping algorithm sometimes prefers white faces to Black ones. The investigation comes after Twitter users noticed Black faces were less ...

Twitter's automatic cropping of images had underlying issues that favoured white individuals over black people, and women over men, the company said. It comes months after its users highlighted ...