How did parties campaign for the #EU2024 Parliament elections? Together with @wiebkedrews, @andreas_neumeie and @RiedlJasmin from @projekt_sparta, we published the EUDigiParty data set today including social media handles, website links etc. of 401 European parties. Link follows!

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❓ A question that takes some more time to think is: What is still missing? .One aspect, for instance, I did not see addressed is a data quality control mechanism for data provided.

5️⃣ There will be a central DSA Data Access Portal hopefully making the process a lot easier and transparent for researchers compared to the application processes to various platform APIs under DSA40(12) 🚪📊.

4️⃣ Art 13 defines a dispute settlement procedure, mainly a mediation process of maximum of 2 months between data provider, DSC and where necessary also the involved researcher(s) 🔄.

3️⃣ Art 8 formulates what belongs into a research data access application as a prerequisite for DSCs to formulate reasoned requests for data access ☑ 📄.

their application and after that within 21 days the DSC will decide whether to transmit a reasoned request to the data provide and inform the researcher of the decision 👍 ❓ 👎.

2️⃣ Art 7 formulates a timeline for a reliable processing of researchers’ data access applications and transmission of reasoned requests by the DSC of establishment. This includes fast response times: within 5 days researchers should receive a confirmation of completeness of. .

This may finally allow researchers to measure content exposure and control (at least to some extent) for changes of platform design and the influence of recommender systems, e.g. with respect to exposure to disinformation or political campaign content 🔭 📊 ⚙.

1️⃣ The draft act in (12) mentions concrete examples of data that should be available for researchers. Good news❗for political researchers are that this includes exposure data and it includes data of content recommendations and internal testing of new features ➡️.

🇪🇺 Yesterday the draft delegated act on data access under the DSA was published! After taking some time to read the draft act I would like to share my 5 main take-aways from a researcher perspective:.a 🧵. #EU #DSA #DataAccess #DigitalGovernance #Regulation #CSS #PolComm

Let me know what you think would be good ways to ensure data quality of digital platform data via PM or in the comments 🗣 ✍ 💡 .#DigitalGovernance #PolComm #CSS #DSA #SocialMedia.

The op-ed also underlines the importance of an independent entity to test data infrastructures and data quality of research data provided under DSA Art 40 🇪🇺.

Thus, a lot of researchers may base their anaylsis on false data if not informed to check the quality or better recollect the data via the API which TikTok repaired after a few weeks and several unresponded emails before we could finally explain the issues ⏳.

Basically, viewing and sharing metrics of data delivered by the TikTok API were false for several months and that just before the 2024 European Elections 🛑.

TikTok's API data quality problems, a 🧵. I have posted about this briefly before but now explained the TikTok API issues that @andreas_neumeie, @wiebkedrews, @RiedlJasmin and I found in more detail in this op-ed on TechPolicyPress 📰 🌐 .

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and the title is crisp as always: "The EUDigiParty data set: The digital campaigning presence of 401 political parties during the European Parliament election 2024 including websites and social media handles on Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, X/Twitter, and YouTube" 😄.