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X has - rather quietly - rolled out a new way to provide researchers access to public data on X, as required per article 40.12 of the Digital Services Act. How can you do get access? See the thread below 👇#dsa

The Digital Services Act is a transparency machine. Platforms have to submit every 6 months a report describing their content moderation activities in the EU. The first reports are in and there’s a wealth of information in there. Thread

I wrote a short commentary for Stanfords @journalsafetech #TSRC2022 on developments in the EU to provide researchers w access to platform data, covering the Digital Services Act, Code of Practice on Disinformation,EDMO Code of Conduct & how they're linked

The @EDMO_EUI Working Group on Platform-to-Researcher Data Access, published its 182p report on how platforms can share platform data, including sensitive personal data, with researchers in a GDPR-compliant way.This work is important for multiple reasons 🧵 https://t.co/2lYew9RP5G

For me, the striking thing about so many of these images of rioters in the Capitol is that what they're doing - all of them - is creating content for social media. At least in their minds, the true seat of power is not actually in that building. It's online.

The more things change the more they stay the same. One of my favorite covers of all time - now exactly 50 years old #privacy