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pith:J4GENURE

pith:2026:J4GENURE5WUASM27PUPLATRWAN

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Silence and Noise: Self-censorship and Opinion Expression on Social Media

Bruce Desmarais, Emma Carpenetti, Sarah Rajtmajer, Xinyu Wang

Social media users self-censor more in larger audiences with low perceived support and adjust their expressed views to match group norms.

arxiv:2604.09465 v2 · 2026-04-10 · cs.SI · cs.HC

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Claims

C1strongest claim

self-censorship is associated with community context; social media users embedded within larger audiences, with lower posting frequency and perceived support, are less likely to express their opinions, and those who do speak often adjust their expressed views to align with perceived group norms.

C2weakest assumption

That participants' self-reported differences between publicly shared opinions and privately held beliefs accurately reflect actual behavior without substantial social desirability bias or recall errors in the survey and interview responses.

C3one line summary

Self-censorship on social media rises with larger audiences, lower posting frequency, and lower perceived support, causing users to align expressed views with perceived group norms.

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First computed	2026-06-23T02:13:23.673237Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

4f0c46d224eda809335f7d1eb04e36034a98ec572fbb8c2b38700311e50cd99f

Aliases

arxiv: 2604.09465 · arxiv_version: 2604.09465v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2604.09465 · pith_short_12: J4GENURE5WUA · pith_short_16: J4GENURE5WUASM27 · pith_short_8: J4GENURE

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curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/J4GENURE5WUASM27PUPLATRWAN \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: 4f0c46d224eda809335f7d1eb04e36034a98ec572fbb8c2b38700311e50cd99f

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