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 ...

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 ...

You may remember the frenzy last year when it became apparent that the algorithm Twitter used to automatically crop images uploaded to the site prioritized white faces over Black ones, revealing yet ...

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 ...

If you post, for example, a portrait format photo along with a tweet, it'll now show in its full vertical glory rather than being cropped wherever the algorithm decides. However, tweets with images ...

Twitter says it is deactivating an automatic photo-cropping function after an investigation into claims the tool trended toward removing Black faces from photographs. Twitter’s director of software ...

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 ...

Twitter has laid out plans for a bug bounty competition with a difference. This time around, instead of paying researchers who uncover security issues, Twitter will reward those who find as-yet ...

Twitter admitted this week that an algorithm behind its automatic photo cropping feature was biased, so it did away with it. In a blog post Wednesday, the social networking platform said that it had ...

Twitter has presented a new surprise for users following the removal of the auto-cropping feature in platforms such as iOS and Android. This time, you can now view photos in their full-sized form as ...

Twitter has officially announced that it does not crop image previews on the web version. The company previously had stopped automatically cropping images on the mobile version too. This comes after a ...

Those competing will have to submit a description of their findings, and a dataset that can be run through the algorithm to demonstrate the issue. Twitter will then assign points based on what kind of ...