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<p>The <a href="
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https://www.tellerreport.com/tech/2020-09-22-is-the-twitter-algorithm-racist-.SJZKvgTIBw.html" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">being racist and sexist[/url] last year, when it was found more likely to crop out Black people and women. </p>
<p>The company announced a bug bounty for anyone able to prove biases in its algorithms, and has now named the winners, who variously proved a number of biases … </p>
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