November 2, 2024

Programmatic

In a world where nearly everyone is always online, there is no offline.

Is There Racial Bias in Twitter’s Image Previews?

Over the weekend, Twitter users began to notice something potentially prejudiced about the way the social network’s algorithm crops photos for thumbnails: Post an image containing two headshots–one of a person of color and one of a white person–and the automatic feature seems more likely to zoom in on the latter in the image preview….
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