Twitter Will Reward Hackers Who Can Fix Bias On The Platform
Twitter Inc (NYSE:TWTR) has launched a competition to urge hackers to find and fix errors with one of its algorithms. [soros] Q2 2021 hedge fund letters, conferences and more Fixing the bugThrough the bug bounty program, the social network wants to tackle racial and gender bias in its image-cropping algorithm, as reported by Metro. Last year, researchers said that it worked in a racist and gender-biased way. “On photos attached to tweets that are larger or a different shape than the thumbnail proportions, the site automatically chooses what portion of the image to show in the preview.” The com...