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    1. Sasha Costanza-Chock. Design Justice : Community-Led Practices to Build the Worlds We Need. The MIT Press, 2020. ISBN 978-0-262-35686-2 978-0-262-04345-8. URL: https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/78577 (visited on 2023-12-15), doi:10.7551/mitpress/12255.001.0001.

      I think community involvement in data design is important becausethe person who design this may ignore the users’ true needs. Including affected people in the design process can help reduce these problems because they can share their real experiences and point out risks that developers might overlook. For example, different users may have different concerns about privacy, bias, and how social media platforms spread information. By listening to these people and involving them in testing, developers can create more fair and responsible systems. How can developers make sure that the voices of marginalized groups are actually considered when designing new technologies?

    1. Different simplifications are useful for different tasks. Any given simplification will be helpful for some tasks and be unhelpful for others.

      In my opinion, these important social media platforms may recommend popular posts rather than more reliable content. The number of likes does not fully reflect the accuracy or value of the content. I think that the social media platforms should not only consider the number of likes but also whether the content is genuine and has reliable sources.

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    1. [c15] Sarah Jeong. How to Make a Bot That Isn't Racist. Vice, March 2016. URL: https://www.vice.com/en/article/mg7g3y/how-to-make-a-not-racist-bot (visited on 2023-12-02).

      I found it interesting that the article shows how difficult it is to make a bot behave ethically. I think the developers should be responsible for what their bot does, even when the bot learns from other users, because they are the ones who decided to create and release it.

    1. can appear to be like any other user. The bot might be the only thing posting to the account, or human users might sometimes use a bot to post for them.

      In my opinion, if the bot act just like human, for example, they may post human selfie and share daily. This will make communication on social media less credible. It feels like it’s getting harder to know what’s authentic online. I mean, should social media platforms be required to clearly identity accounts that are operated by bots?

    1. Justine Sacco, a PR director at IAC with only 170 followers posted a racist joke tweet right before getting on an 11-hour flight to South Africa Someone emailed the tweet to valleywag.gawker.com. Valleywag wrote a post on it and tweeted the post. Word spread, and Justine’s tweet went viral. Twitter users found other recent offensive tweets by Justine about countries she was traveling in. IAC (Justine’s employer) called the tweet “outrageous, offensive” but “Unfortunately, the employee in question is unreachable on an international flight.” Twitter users, now knowing that Justine is on a flight, started the hashtag #hasjustinelanedyet, which started trending on Twitter (including some celebrities tweeting about it). Twitter users were able to deduce which flight Justine was on. One Twitter user got a photo of Justine turning on her phone after getting off the plane. That user also talked to her father at the airport and tweeted about the photo and their responses.

      I think the Sacco case raises an interesting question about the boundaries of public rights. They have the right to critique her remarks. However, i think this does not necessarily mean that thay have the right to further pry into her private life. Does the public information disclosed on social media imply that the public can freely search for person's private informations?

    1. There are many more ethics frameworks which we haven’t included here

      Another Ethics framework that could be included is Ethics egoism. Whether an action is moral mainly depends on whether it is in line with the interests of the actor. This framwork could be interesting for social media because the company may want more profit and more users online, they may release more atractive video or news, in order to make their user addicted to their apps. So that they can make more profit during this process. If the company can bring greater benefits, then the company might consider this choose as morally justified. But i wonder whether should a compamy's own benefit be enough to make a decision ethical if their users are harmed.