A Twitter thread, in which I will post some images to determine whether Twitter is still highlighting white male faces regardless of the composition of the image posted.
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In this example, we have Kanye West and Jacinda Arden.
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Here's Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston:
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Here's Beyonce and Jay-Z.
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Here's Kanye West and Elton John.
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Here's Nelson Mandela and a cat from Belgium who was suspected of having coronavirus.
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Here's Jacinda Ardern, the prime minister of New Zealand, and Bender from Futurama:
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Here's three Barack Obamas vs a single Homer Simpson.
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And here's Harrison Ford wearing a Denzel Washington T-shirt, next to Denzel Washington wearing a Harrison Ford T-shirt.
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Replying to @dylanbeattie
Interesting outlier

Jan 26, 2021 路 6:33 PM UTC

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Replying to @stilkov @dylanbeattie
I get the point being made - I do wonder if there are other factors in play here: the like topic percentages of the news feed, if someone follows politics, people in similar images users have liked previously, etc.
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The algorithm adds metadata to the images, which is shared with official Twitter clients (web and iOS) but isn't exposed via any APIs. The crop is applied client-side based on that metadata. But as far as I know it is the same metadata, and the same crop, for all users.
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