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    1. Can you think of an example of pernicious ignorance in social media interaction?

      I think on the english-speaking internet specifically, there's a lot of American defaultism- most because of America's disproportionately large population among native-english speaking countries, and the fact that a lot of popular social media sites are American and first got popular in America. I saw this during Covid, when users on Twitter criticized a couple for having a wedding with a big crowd (this was during the American lockdowns)- only for the OP to reveal that she was a New Zealander whose country had safely exited lockdown far quicker than America.

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    1. Matt Binder. The majority of traffic from Elon Musk's X may have been fake during the Super Bowl, report suggests. February 2024. Section: Tech. URL: https://mashable.com/article/x-twitter-elon-musk-bots-fake-traffic (visited on 2024-03-31).

      This article by Matt Binder details the abnormally high number of bot traffic that occurred during the 2024 Super Bowl. In particular, the article cites the words of CHEQ (a major cybersecurity firm) founder and CEO Guy Tytunovich, who details the reasons why such an occurrence is so anomalous. The article also details how the presence of bots has grown notably on Twitter since Elon Musk's assumption of ownership over the site. Finally, it ends with an explanation as to why- mostly pointing to Musk's sweeping lay-offs of staff that perhaps might've safeguarded against bot growth.