Twitter’s image-cropping algorithm marginalizes elderly, disabled, and Arabic

A Twitter algorithm that favored light-skinned faces has now been shown to perpetuate a range of further biases. The algorithm estimated whom a person would want to see first in a picture so the image could be cropped to a suitable size on Twitter. But it was ditched after users found it chose white faces over Black ones. Trying a horrible experiment… Which will the Twitter algorithm pick: Mitch McConnell or Barack Obama? pic.twitter.com/bR1GRyCkia — Tony “Abolish ICE”