Named after the 1998 film, The Truman Show, the Truman Platform is a social media simulation platform created by The Cornell Social Media Lab to provide researchers a community research infrastructure to conduct social media experiments in ecologically-valid realistic environments. Researchers can create different social media environments with a repertoire of features and affordances that fit their research goals and purposes, while ensuring participants have a naturalistic social media experience.
This current iteration studies the effects of moderator transparency on bystander behavior.
https://truman-content-moderation.herokuapp.com/. You may enter a random 6-digit ID when prompted to make an account and provide a Mechanical Turk ID.
Bhandari, A., Ozanne, M., Bazarova, N. N., & DiFranzo, D. (2021). Do you care who flagged this post? Effects of moderator transparency on bystander behavior. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 26(5), 284-300.