Newsweek reports that ad hoc tests run by users first identified the issue. After someone tagged Chief Design Officer Dantley Davis in the thread, he agreed that the company needed to fix the issue.

In May, Twitter said that it would stop using an artificial intelligence algorithm found to favor white and female faces when auto-cropping images. Now, an unusual contest to scrutinize an AI program ...

Twitter has confirmed that its photo-cropping algorithm is, essentially, racist. Specifically, the winning entry in a competition to test its algorithm found that it favors faces that are “slim, young ...

Twitter says it has found no evidence of "racial or gender bias" in its image-cropping algorithm, after a user discovered that it repeatedly cropped a Black man out of an image he posted to the site.

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 ...

Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. In a presentation of these results at DEF CON 29, Rumman Chowdhury, director of Twitter’s META team (which ...