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  1. Apr 2023
    1. On the other hand, some bots are made with the intention of harming, countering, or deceiving others.

      A bot that I want to mention are bots with the intent of scamming people. For example, there are bots that randomly follow people, or post comments on Instagram, Twitter, TikTok, or even YouTube displaying themselves as a female model. When people go into the bot's social media profile they see a link which promises to provide "special" content, which then promptly asks the user for their bank information, so they can obviously steal money from the unsuspecting user. Most people don't fall for these scams, but a small portion of users play right into the bot's creator's hands allowing them to easily steal their money. There are also different versions of these bots, with the same end goal that can be targeted towards a specific group of people. Like, there are bots claiming to have free Fortnite or Roblox currency, that might show up for a child watching content for one of those games.

    1. Bots, on the other hand, will do actions through social media accounts and 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.

      There are many bots on different social media platforms I use. And just like this says, they're used to imitate a human posting. There are different reasons for what a bot can be posting, like on Twitter, there are certain bot accounts that I see used purely for entertainment, like a bot that will post a random meme every hour, or a bot that posts a line from the Shrek script every minute. And there can be other bots used for moderation like on Discord, or Reddit. But these are mostly used to make a human's jobs on social media just a little bit easier, whether it's for entertainment, moderation, or something completely different.

  2. Mar 2023
    1. The ends justify the means.

      I do not agree with this statement. In most people's eyes, everything that they are doing is good. So some people might interpret this statement as, "it does not matter what I'm doing, because I am doing this for good.

    1. What enabled someone to be able to get a photo of her checking the phone at the airport?

      I think the reasoning as to why people were able to find her in the airport was to intimidate Justine in some sort of way. The same user who had tweeted the photo of her after her flight also contacted her father and tweeted out their conversation, so if Justine herself would have caught wind of this, it might have been a scare for her. People have a lot of time on their hands, and 11 hours is plenty of time for something to go viral on Twitter. And knowing this, Justine was on a flight back when internet was mostly not available on aircraft, so she did not know anything until she stepped out of the gate, and it was a major wake up call.