content was tracked only if at least five characters were entered into the composer or comment box. • Content was then marked as “censored” if it was not shared within the subsequent ten minutes. • Using this threshold allowed us to record only the presence or absence of text entered, not the keystrokes or content.
anonymous manner, so researchers were not privy to any specific user’s activity. • Furthermore, all instrumentation was done on the client side. • In other words, the content of self-censored posts and comments was not sent back to Facebook’s servers: Only a binary value that content was entered at all.
than comments. • H2: men will self-censor more than women. • H3: users with more opposite-sex friends will self-censor more. • H4: younger users will self-censor less. • H5: users with older friends will censor more. • H6: users who more frequently used audience selection tools self-censor less. • H7: users with more diverse friends will self-censor more. Hypothesis
will be censored more than comments. • 男性較⼥女性⾼高,但當男性其男性朋友⽐比例增加時會審查更多⽂文 章。 (對於評論則未觀察到受性別影響) • H2: men will self-censor more than women. 在⽂文章部分成⽴立,但評論部分則否。 • H3: users with more opposite-sex friends will self-censor more. 不論是⽂文章或評論皆不成⽴立。