This looks really bad. It appears Twitter& #39;s photo preview algorithm focuses on the white man& #39;s face over the Black man& #39;s face despite their placement on the photos.

This is what algorithmic bias looks like. https://twitter.com/NotAFile/status/1307337294249103361">https://twitter.com/NotAFile/...

And for everyone to check against, this is the preview I currently get:

Another example https://twitter.com/jefcaine/status/1307441209338544148?s=21">https://twitter.com/jefcaine/...

@Jack talks a lot about needing to address racial inequalities and matters of social justice. These examples seem like there is a pretty clear issue that needs to be fixed at Twitter.

Here& #39;s a 2018 blog post in which Twitter explains how its algo crops images: "The basic idea is to use these predictions to center a crop around the most interesting region."

https://blog.twitter.com/engineering/en_us/topics/infrastructure/2018/Smart-Auto-Cropping-of-Images.html">https://blog.twitter.com/engineeri...

This is by no means scientific so there may be other possible explanations, but the anecdotal evidence here isn& #39;t great.

I don& #39;t understand why Twitter doesn& #39;t allow users to select what part of the photo they want to show in a preview? This would eliminate an algo decision.