X will now tell users when governments have forced it to limit their posts
X will now tell users when governments have forced it to limit their posts
X 现在将告知用户其帖子何时因政府要求而受到限制
X on Monday announced it will now tell users when their posts have been “shadowbanned,” meaning shown to fewer people, due to the company’s compliance with local laws. The feature is an expansion of the social network’s earlier transparency tool called “Under the Hood,” which allows users to see if any labels have been applied to their account or their posts that could have affected their visibility on the platform. It will also highlight any downranking of users’ posts due to government-required content filtering. X 周一宣布，当用户的帖子因公司遵守当地法律而被“影子屏蔽”（即向更少的人展示）时，平台现在将通知用户。此功能是对该社交网络早期透明度工具“Under the Hood”（幕后）的扩展，该工具允许用户查看其账户或帖子是否被添加了可能影响其在平台上可见性的标签。它还将突出显示因政府要求的内容过滤而导致的帖子降权情况。
We’ve expanded Under The Hood after seeing people’s appreciation of more transparency into government-required content filtering. In addition to showing labels applied to your account and posts in the prior month, Under The Hood now shows if your account or posts had their… https://t.co/Op5rBnE1jg pic.twitter.com/ZUrbkO28ay— X Open Source (@XOpenSource) September 19, 2026 在看到人们对政府要求的内容过滤有更高的透明度表示赞赏后，我们扩展了“Under The Hood”功能。除了显示上个月应用于您账户和帖子的标签外，Under The Hood 现在还会显示您的账户或帖子是否…… https://t.co/Op5rBnE1jg pic.twitter.com/ZUrbkO28ay— X Open Source (@XOpenSource) 2026年9月19日
Previously, information about how an X user’s account or posts were being labeled and downranked was not available to end users. As a result, many often accused the company, formerly known as Twitter, of having shadowbanned them. In addition, most companies that share data about government requests do so on an aggregate basis through “transparency reports,” not at the account or post level. That began to change when, in August, X rolled out its transparency tool to offer more visibility into its moderation decisions. 此前，X 用户无法获知其账户或帖子是如何被标记和降权的。因此，许多人经常指责这家前身为 Twitter 的公司对他们进行了“影子屏蔽”。此外，大多数分享政府请求数据的公司都是通过“透明度报告”以汇总方式进行，而非针对具体的账户或帖子层面。这种情况在 8 月份开始改变，当时 X 推出了其透明度工具，旨在为其审核决策提供更高的可见性。
The “Under the Hood” option in the X app settings allows anyone who has posted at least 10 times during the month to download their aggregate stats as a JSON file, a standard data format. (Non-technical users can drop the file into any AI chatbot to have it explained.) This same process will now show if an account or posts have had their visibility limited because X is complying with local laws. The file will also include which posts were withheld in a country following a legal demand, and which country made the request. X 应用设置中的“Under the Hood”选项允许当月发布至少 10 次帖子的用户将其汇总统计数据下载为 JSON 文件（一种标准数据格式）。（非技术用户可以将该文件放入任何 AI 聊天机器人中进行解读。）现在，同样的流程将显示账户或帖子是否因 X 遵守当地法律而受到可见性限制。该文件还将包含哪些帖子因法律要求而在特定国家被屏蔽，以及是哪个国家提出了该请求。
Governments cite a range of reasons for such demands, from laws against hate speech to terrorism-related content to election rules. Of course, critics, including free-expression groups, say some countries also use these laws to squash political dissent. 各国政府提出此类要求的原因多种多样，从反仇恨言论法到恐怖主义相关内容，再到选举规则，不一而足。当然，包括言论自由团体在内的批评人士表示，一些国家也利用这些法律来压制政治异见。
The update follows a number of other transparency-related efforts at X, including the open-sourcing of its “For You” algorithm, which selects the posts in users’ main feed, and an expansion of its efforts to open source parts of its codebase. The latter involved adding more detail, including on the model configuration, filtering, and core ranking system details. That means the code now includes the parameters used to weight different signals — information that is key to understanding which posts are actually displayed. At the time of that open-sourcing effort, X’s vice president of product, Keith Coleman, said it was “the kind of thing that I think people will be fairly shocked that we are releasing.” 此次更新是 X 在透明度方面所做的一系列努力之一，包括将其“为你推荐”（For You）算法开源（该算法用于选择用户主信息流中的帖子），以及扩大其部分代码库的开源力度。后者涉及增加更多细节，包括模型配置、过滤和核心排名系统的详细信息。这意味着代码现在包含了用于加权不同信号的参数——这些信息对于理解哪些帖子被实际展示至关重要。在进行该开源工作时，X 的产品副总裁 Keith Coleman 表示，这是“我认为人们会对我们发布这些内容感到相当震惊的事情”。