Twitter's Racial Bias

Hi there,

I truly hope you're holding on OK, especially with these days getting chillier.

I wanted to take some time and highlight a story from my colleague, Patrick Kulp, who wrote about the images Twitter (rather, the algorithm) chooses for its users to see. Twitter users began an informal experiment over the weekend—tweeting two images, one showing a person of color and another image showing a white person.

The social media account zoomed in on the latter in image previews. It's a "universal problem with AI," one source told Patrick. Read the full backstory on how it could be an issue for users and the platform.

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