Big Tech Accused of Stonewalling European Social Media Researchers

科技巨头被指控阻挠欧洲社交媒体研究人员

来源: arstechnica.com | 主题: Social Networks | 评论: 46

时间: on Monday July 27, 2026 @12:00PM

European misinformation researchers say TikTok, X, and Meta are obstructing access to platform data required under the EU's Digital Services Act through rejections, restrictive quotas, costly APIs, and burdensome security demands. Although regulators have fined X and pushed platforms to improve access, researchers remain skeptical that the changes will provide reliable, reproducible data at scale. Ars Technica reports: In recent years, social media companies shut down public access tools like Meta's CrowdTangle and replaced them with content libraries , or, like X, paywalled their API data , forcing academics to pay "hundreds of dollars a month," said Duncan Allen, a research officer at Democracy Reporting International (DRI) in Germany. Researchers say that without API access, what Iamnit

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