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 ads on user passive and active use of social media.
https://truman-ads-9a2b121757aa.herokuapp.com/. You may enter a random 6-digit ID when prompted to make an account and provide a Prolific ID.