Friday, 24 March, 2023

Twitter offers a 'bounty' of $3,500 to find algorithmic bias

<p>In view of rising criticisms related to the &ldquo;algorithmic bias&rdquo;, social media giant Twitter is offering a &ldquo;bounty&rdquo; of up to $3,500 to tackle and subsequently root out the problem of online bias. The intention is to reduce &quot;unequal treatment based on demographic differences,&quot; caused unintentionally by machine learning models. This initiative is a part of Twitter&rsquo;s &ldquo;algorithmic fairness initiative&rdquo; to be neutral and equitable.</p>