{"id":93518,"date":"2022-04-26T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-04-26T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cdt.org\/?post_type=insight&p=93518"},"modified":"2022-11-30T12:55:42","modified_gmt":"2022-11-30T17:55:42","slug":"survey-instrument-raw-results-data-shedding-light-on-shadowbanning","status":"publish","type":"insight","link":"https:\/\/cdt.org\/insights\/survey-instrument-raw-results-data-shedding-light-on-shadowbanning\/","title":{"rendered":"Survey Instrument & Raw Results Data – Shedding Light on Shadowbanning"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Accompanying the publication of CDT\u2019s research report, Shedding Light on Shadowbanning<\/em>, we are also providing the details and data from our national survey of social media users. The survey was conducted by Edge Research<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is important to note that, as with any opinion survey, we are able to explore how many social media users perceive<\/em> themselves as having been shadowbanned, but not how many have actually been shadowbanned. Shadowbanning, by nature, can almost never be completely confirmed by the user who is experiencing it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Survey Questionnaire<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The aim of the survey was to find out how many believed they had experienced what we call shadowbanning and what their experiences were like. In the survey, this was described as “When a social media user\u2019s profile or one or more of their posts or comments are blocked from public view or from other users\u2019 feeds by the social media platform, even though it appears to that person that they are still posting as usual.” More specifically, we asked about experiences of perceived shadowbanning, reasons why it might have happened, how it looked in practice, perceived impacts, options for recourse, attitudes towards the practice, and demographic data. The full questionnaire can be found here<\/a>.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Survey Data<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This was a nationally representative survey of social media users in the U.S and was administered in English, between November and December 2021. Our sample consisted of 1205 people with the results weighted based on age, race, and gender. The survey also included an additional oversample of \u201cperceived shadow banned\u201d respondents to ensure a substantive n-size for additional analyses. The sample can be described as follows:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/td>Social Media Base sample<\/em><\/td>Shadow Banned Over sample<\/em><\/td>Total<\/em><\/td><\/tr>
Shadow Banned in Last Year<\/td>93<\/td>181<\/td>274<\/td><\/tr>
Not Shadow Banned<\/td>913<\/td>18<\/td>931<\/td><\/tr>
Total<\/td>1,006<\/td>199<\/td>1,205<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The survey respondents were drawn from an online panel which was constructed using the following steps:<\/p>\n\n\n\n