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    1. December 2023. URL: https://twitter.com/vax_progress (visited on 2023-12-02).

      This source is especially interesting to me, its essientially a bot on Twitter that is tracking the total number of Americans who have been vaccinated agaisnt Covid-19. My immeadiate thoughts were this has to be spreading misinformation and where is this bot getting its data. Also, how frequently is this bot updated, and how helpful it is, the bot is meerly just reporting statistics so how harmful can it be? Well, if it spreads misinformation, it can be very harmful. However, if these numbers are accurate, it can be very helpful to people who might have been nervous to go outside when the pandemic prime was happeneing, if it gave people the comfort that a large number of people were vaccinated

    1. ted a video claiming that he was

      I think this is one of the scariest things about AI and the future of bots. In the past, bots have been limited because it is rare that they have been able to communicate back with people, but AI changes this. AI has the ability to make millions of bots, create fake accounts, and also communicate back with users, similiarily to how Grok.AI communicates with users on the platform X. So, this begs the question, how does AI affect the future of bots, and how will people use AI to create millions of bots?

    1. yone has a right to life, liberty, and property

      Locke and Jefferson's ideas of natural right are very similiar. When boiled down, they essientially mean people should be free. Whether thats the right to own a house, or justice in the law, or the pursuit of happiness, it is about establishing the principles of freedom. These were the founding principles for the United States and have largely been true, with the exception of some groups and time periods throughout history.

    1. What motivated Twitter users to put time and energy into this?

      Twitter users were most likely outraged that this comment had the potential to go unseen. In the exposers minds, they likely believed that something insensitive like this should not be unpunished, and that Justine Sacco should at least be exposed for what she believes, even if she believed it to be a joke. Now it begs the question towards whether having people take photos of her and harass her for weeks after the incident was the appropriate response. People probably thought that making the story viral would be the best way to combat this, forcing her to make a public apology and get fired from her job, but then we later see that she was re-hired after apologizing. So was her apology offered with any depth, or was it so that she could get out of the public eye? Twitter users thought that by putting time and energy into this meant there would be some change, but I believe you could make the argument her behavior remained largely unchanged after apologizing.