Thread by @AJLUnited

On Sunday night, @60Minutes aired an episode on facial recognition and #algorithmicbias, and excluded the groundbreaking work of prominent Black female AI scientists: @jovialjoy, @rajiinio, and @timnitGebru.

#CiteBlackWomen 1/6

Instead, @60Minutes featured another study — calling it “groundbreaking” — even though the study itself explicitly cited both @jovialjoy's and @rajiinio's algorithmic bias work as its motivation.

https://twitter.com/60Minutes/status/1394069009004384262

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And it gets worse.

Our founder @jovialjoy spent hours with @60Minutes producers before the show aired, built a custom demo for @andersoncooper, and recommended research to feature. 3/6

https://twitter.com/jovialjoy/status/1394260782666457090

While actively talking about how facial recognition software often leaves out marginalized people, @60Minutes failed to credit the Black female scientists whose work demonstrated reduced accuracy in gender and skin tone — effectively erasing them.

The irony is too much. 4/6

The harm in what happened with @60Minutes yesterday isn’t about which researcher put out what research first.

It’s about how Black females in science and tech are expected to do 10x the work to "breakthrough" and then are consistently erased and silenced. 5/6

.@timnitGebru's experience of being ousted from Google is another case of how tech erases and silences Black female voices.

Those reporting on #AiBias and racism in tech need to prioritize marginalized voices first and give credit when credit is due. 6/6 news.wbfo.org/post/google-em…