{"id":39,"date":"2020-10-02T07:18:55","date_gmt":"2020-10-02T07:18:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/?p=1321356"},"modified":"2020-10-02T07:18:55","modified_gmt":"2020-10-02T07:18:55","slug":"twitter-wants-to-tackle-its-biased-image-cropping-problem-by-giving-you-control-instead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/?p=39","title":{"rendered":"Twitter wants to tackle its biased image cropping problem by giving you control instead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2020\/08\/Screenshot-2020-08-13-at-11.17.10-AM-796x386.png\" width=\"796\" height=\"386\"><br \/>Last month, a bunch of users tweeted about how Twitter\u2018s image cropping algorithm seems to have a bias towards fair-skinned people. When users posted uncropped images containing both light and dark-skinned people, the social network\u2019s algorithm often showed the light-skinned person in the preview. Trying a horrible experiment\u2026 Which will the Twitter algorithm pick: Mitch McConnell or Barack Obama? pic.twitter.com\/bR1GRyCkia \u2014 Tony \u201cAbolish (Pol)ICE\u201d Arcieri \ud83e\udd80 (@bascule) September 19, 2020 At that time, Twitter said, while its algorithm was tested for bias, it will conduct further investigations to resolve the issue. Last night, in an update, the company said it\u2019s&#8230; <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/neural\/2020\/10\/02\/twitter-wants-to-tackle-its-biased-image-cropping-problem-by-giving-you-control-instead\/?utm_source=social&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=profeed\">This story continues<\/a> at The Next Web<\/p>\n<p>Or just read more coverage about: <a href='https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/company\/twitter-3\/'>Twitter<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/neural\/2020\/10\/02\/twitter-wants-to-tackle-its-biased-image-cropping-problem-by-giving-you-control-instead\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last month, a bunch of users tweeted about how Twitter\u2018s image cropping algorithm seems to have a bias towards fair-skinned people. When users posted uncropped images containing both light and dark-skinned people,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/40"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}