Tagged With Racial Bias

2020 brought a wave of discrimination and harassment allegations against major companies like Amazon, McDonald's, and Pinterest. These are some of the year's high-profile legal battles.

Tyler Sonnemaker

Sociologist Cassi Pittman Claytor outlines the work that needs to be done to combat retail racism: 'You can't treat a disease if you do not have metrics to test for it and diagnose it'

Madeline Stone

Twitter is making changes to its photo software after people online found it was automatically cropping out Black faces and focusing on white ones

Katie Canales

Twitter is investigating after anecdotal data suggested its picture-cropping tool favours white faces

Isobel Asher Hamilton

Property tech companies are helping landlords spy on residents, collect their data, and even evict them. Critics are calling it an invasion of privacy that could reinforce inequality.

Tyler Sonnemaker

Facebook and Instagram are creating teams to study bias on their platforms as they face increased pressure to address racial disparities

Tyler Sonnemaker

A Black man in Detroit was arrested and detained for 30 hours after being falsely identified by facial recognition

Isobel Asher Hamilton

An AI tool which reconstructed a pixelated picture of Barack Obama to look like a white man perfectly illustrates racial bias in algorithms

Isobel Asher Hamilton

US Surgeon General Jerome Adams says George Floyd 'could have been me' as he opens up about facing racism every day

Hilary Brueck

Florida authorities released footage of a block party with 3,000 people that ended with arrests

Michelle Mark

Amazon, Apple, Google, IBM, and Microsoft worse at transcribing black people's voices than white people's with AI voice recognition, study finds

Isobel Asher Hamilton

42% of US employees have experienced or seen racism at work. It's the latest example of how diversity efforts are falling short, especially in America.

Allana Akhtar

A black attorney says he was detained in court because a deputy thought he was a suspect just pretending to be a lawyer

Michelle Mark

Coast Guard Academy retaliated against a whistleblower who complained of racial bias

Caitlin Foster

A white woman called the police on a black child she wrongly accused of sexual assault. After being confronted with video footage, she apologised.

Michelle Mark

Target has fired an employee after a 20-year-old woman falsely accused of stealing a bikini was forced to do a 'walk of shame' and pull down her pants

Kate Taylor

Starbucks' new open-door bathroom policy signals a dramatic shift in American middle-class values

Kate Taylor

Furious customers freaked out after being locked out of Starbucks when stores closed for racial-bias training

Kate Taylor

Starbucks baristas in the US reveal what it was like to attend the chain's massive racial-bias training

Kate Taylor

Southwest Airlines apologised for asking a woman to 'prove' her mixed-race son was hers before flying

Kieran Corcoran