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South Africa’s SPAR admits to irregular loan allegations

South Africa’s SPAR admits to irregular loan allegations

SOUTH Africa's SPAR Group said it agreed with its auditors that a reportable irregularity concerning an alleged fictitious and fraudulent loan had occurred at the grocery retailer. Local online newspapers Business Day, News24 and news magazine Financial Mail have been reporting various allegations of fraudulent and fictitious loans and racial bias brought by independent retailers who use the SPAR brand. In December SPAR denied that the financial allegations were symptomatic of "dodgy" accounting or that it discriminated against some of its retailers based on race or store location. "Over the past month, SPAR and the external auditors have conducted investigations into…
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Questions swirl about possible racial bias in Twitter image function

Questions swirl about possible racial bias in Twitter image function

AVI ASHER-SCHAPIRO SOCIAL media giant Twitter said on Monday it would investigate its image-cropping function that users complained favored white faces over black. The image preview function of Twitter's mobile app automatically crops pictures that are too big to fit on the screen and selects which parts of the image to display and cut off. Prompted by a graduate student who found an image he was posting cropped out the face of a Black colleague, a San Francisco-based programmer found Twitter's system would crop out images of President Barack Obama when posted alongside Republican Senate Leader Mitch McConnell. "Twitter is…
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