Why Twitter’s image cropping algorithm appears to have white bias

The Next Web
By Ivan MehtaSep 21, 2020, 7:17 am151 pts
Twitter‘s algorithm for automatically cropping images attached to tweets often doesn’t focus on the important content in them. A bother, for sure, but it seems like a minor one on the surface. However, over the weekend, researchers found that the cropping algorithm might have a more serious problem: white…

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