Twitter’s design encourages hostility and controversy. Here’s what needs to change It’s about time the platform took another look at the way it surfaces content, and its engagement metrics Who faces hostility on Twitter? Hostility on Twitter is disproportionately directed towards women, people of color and marginalized groups. For example, in 2016 US comedianLeslie Joneswasinundated with racist tweetsfollowing the release of the filmGhostbusters. Black and Indigenous sportspeople, such asAdam Goodes,Glen KamaraandLewis Hamilton, have also been subjected to racist abuse on Twitter and implored the platform to do more to respond to the situation....

Twitter’s design encourages hostility and controversy. Here’s what needs to change It’s about time the platform took another look at the way it surfaces content, and its engagement metrics Who faces hostility on Twitter? Hostility on Twitter is disproportionately directed towards women, people of color and marginalized groups. For example, in 2016 US comedianLeslie Joneswasinundated with racist tweetsfollowing the release of the filmGhostbusters. Black and Indigenous sportspeople, such asAdam Goodes,Glen KamaraandLewis Hamilton, have also been subjected to racist abuse on Twitter and implored the platform to do more to respond to the situation....

Twitter’s down for many users (Update: It’s back) Outages have hit the website Story byThomas Macaulay Thomas is a senior reporter at TNW. He covers European tech, with a focus on AI, cybersecurity, and government policy.Thomas is a senior reporter at TNW. He covers European tech, with a focus on AI, cybersecurity, and government policy. Get the TNW newsletter Get the most important tech news in your inbox each week....

Twitter’s down for many users (Update: It’s back) Outages have hit the website Story byThomas Macaulay Thomas is a senior reporter at TNW. He covers European tech, with a focus on AI, cybersecurity, and government policy.Thomas is a senior reporter at TNW. He covers European tech, with a focus on AI, cybersecurity, and government policy. Get the TNW newsletter Get the most important tech news in your inbox each week....

Twitter’s image-cropping algorithm marginalizes elderly, disabled, and Arabic An AI bias bounty contest exposed numerous potential harms Twitter’s algorithmic biases Bogdan Kulynych, who bagged the $3,500 first-place prize, showed that the algorithm can amplify real-world biases and social expectations of beauty. Kulynych, a grad student at Switzerland’s EPFL technical university, investigated how the algorithm predicts which region of an image people will look at. The researcher used acomputer-vision model to generate realistic pictures of people with different physical features....