Social Media Censorship Research Tool

Project Lutein

Taiwan AI Labs invites social media users to participate in its project.

It is difficult for individuals to grasp the full picture of social media censorship. They may not be aware that their speech is being  censored or deprioritized by algorithms. This project uses a browser plug-in to alert users to any Facebook posts of theirs that may have been censored. The goal is to help the general public understand the platform’s censorship behavior, to collect censored public content to public dataset, and to evaluate the neutrality of social media content censorship.

This project is an open research project beginning with Facebook, and invites the open source community to migrate to any other social media platforms.

https://github.com/ailabstw/so cial-media-censorship-research -tool

By installing this Chrome Extension plugin, you can:

1. Discover which of your public posts have been blocked or removed from social platforms through the added button in the main page.
2. Contribute the censored posts that have been removed or blocked to the public dataset. This public dataset will serve as the basis for Taiwan AI Labs’  research on social media censorship.

If you install this plugin, you agree to the above description and allow Taiwan AI Labs to include your censored posts in this project.


葉黃素計劃 Project Lutein

台灣人工智慧實驗室（Taiwan AI Labs) 邀請社群平台使用者共同參與計畫。

網路社群媒體使用者無法獲得言論審查全貌，使用者往往自身的言論遭到審查、遮蔽或降序也不自知。本計畫是使用瀏覽器的外掛，讓使用者可以得知自己受到社群平台審查的現狀，並透過匯集「遭到審查」的「公開資訊」內容，讓大眾理解平台之審查行為，建立開放資料用以研究衡量社交平台言論審查之中立性。

本計劃以臉書平台作為開源示範，也以開源方式邀請開源社群一同研究其他社交平台。

https://github.com/ailabstw/so cial-media-censorship-research -tool

透過安裝此Chrome Extention小工具，您便可以：
1. 透過主頁側邊欄新增的按鈕，得知自己有哪些公開言論被社群平台遮蔽或下架。
2. 貢獻審查下架的公開貼文，此公開資料庫將作為台灣人工智慧實驗室社交媒社群言論審查研究基礎。

您若安裝此小工具，代表您同意以上說明並願意參與此計畫。