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Twitter said Wednesday it will study whether its machine learning technology causes “unintentional harms,” a move that comes as social media companies face increasing scrutiny for their role in spreading dangerous conspiracy theories and enabling harassment.
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In the coming months, Twitter’s Responsible Machine Learning Initiative will release reports analyzing possible racial and gender bias in its image cropping algorithm, “a fairness assessment of our Home timeline recommendations across racial subgroups” and “an analysis of content recommendations for different political ideologies across seven countries.”
After Twitter’s image algorithm was criticized last year for focusing on white faces over darker ones, the company…