(Reuters) - Twitter Inc's image-cropping algorithm has a problematic bias toward excluding Black people and men, the company said in new research on Wednesday, adding that "how to crop an image is a decision best made by people."
The study by three of its machine learning researchers was conducted after user criticism last year about image previews in posts excluding Black people's faces.
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