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 ...

PhD student and technologist Colin Madland recently called out the video-conferencing app, Zoom, on Twitter. Madland claimed Zoom has a “crappy face-detection algorithm” that “erases black faces” when ...

The Twitter photo-cropping feature, which uses machine learning to decide which part of a photo to show in user feeds, was accused of being racist and sexist last year, when it was found more likely ...

Last year, Twitter users noticed something strange. When they uploaded photos to the platform, it automatically focused on white faces. After shutting off the tool, Twitter staged a contest in which ...

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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.