{"id":80561,"date":"2020-10-02T21:02:32","date_gmt":"2020-10-02T18:02:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/twitter-promises-change-after-being-called-out-for-racist-cropping-algorithm\/"},"modified":"2020-10-02T21:02:32","modified_gmt":"2020-10-02T18:02:32","slug":"twitter-promises-change-after-being-called-out-for-racist-cropping-algorithm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/twitter-promises-change-after-being-called-out-for-racist-cropping-algorithm\/","title":{"rendered":"#Twitter promises change after being called out for racist cropping algorithm"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_89 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6af0ad0095080\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6af0ad0095080\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/twitter-promises-change-after-being-called-out-for-racist-cropping-algorithm\/#Twitter_says_moving_forward_%E2%80%98the_photo_you_see_in_the_tweet_composer_is_what_it_will_look_like_in_the_tweet\" >Twitter says moving forward &#8216;the photo you see in the tweet composer is what it will look like in the tweet.&#8217;<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/twitter-promises-change-after-being-called-out-for-racist-cropping-algorithm\/#This_weeks_top_technology_stories\" >This week\u2019s top technology stories<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>#<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter<\/a> promises change after being called out for racist cropping algorithm<br \/>\n<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"article-sub-head\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Twitter_says_moving_forward_%E2%80%98the_photo_you_see_in_the_tweet_composer_is_what_it_will_look_like_in_the_tweet\"><\/span>Twitter says moving forward &#8216;the photo you see in the tweet composer is what it will look like in the tweet.&#8217; <span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-content-wrapper\">\n<p>Twitter on Thursday said it is exploring changes to the way photos are cropped on the platform after users showed last week that its algorithm cropped out Black people automatically. <\/p>\n<p>Twitter users did several experiments that showed how Twitter\u2019s automatic photo cropping favored white faces over Black ones, with a <a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bascule\/status\/1307440596668182528?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">viral tweet<\/a> showing that the face of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) was shown over former President Barack Obama. <\/p>\n<p>Chief Design Officer Dantley Davis quickly responded to users last week, saying that the company needed to fix the issue. <\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, the company\u2019s Chief <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/technology\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"4\" title=\"Technology\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Technology<\/a> Officer Parag Agrawal and Davis went into more detail about it in a <a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.twitter.com\/official\/en_us\/topics\/product\/2020\/transparency-image-cropping.html\">blog post<\/a>. They said Twitter will be decreasing its reliance on machine learning to crop photos moving forward, and will focus on \u201cgiving people more visibility and control over what their images will look like in a tweet.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve started exploring different options to see what will work best across the wide range of images people tweet every day. We hope that giving people more choices for image cropping and previewing what they\u2019ll look like in the tweet composer may help reduce the risk of harm,\u201d Agrawal and Davis wrote. \u201cGoing forward, we are committed to following the \u2018what you see is what you get\u2019 principles of design, meaning quite simply: the photo you see in the tweet composer is what it will look like in the tweet.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Agrawal and Davis also noted that Twitter tested the machine learning system for photo cropping and found that it didn\u2019t have a race or gender bias, but said it was an \u201coversight\u201d for not publishing their tests. <\/p>\n<p>They also added that Twitter is still looking into how a system where users can see exactly what a photo would look like after tweeting it would work with photos that are different sizes or are very long or wide. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn those cases, we\u2019ll need to experiment with how we present the photo in a way that doesn\u2019t lose the creator\u2019s intended focal point or take away from the integrity of the photo,\u201d the blog reads. <\/p>\n<p>The two Twitter officials did not say when exactly the photo cropping changes would take effect. <\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container\">\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\">\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"This_weeks_top_technology_stories\"><\/span>This week\u2019s top technology stories<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table is-style-stripes\">\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>In the 2020 election, killing Section 230 is the only bipartisan issue <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Trump blasted TikTok for collecting \u2018vast swaths\u2019 of data\u2014his 2020 <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; 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