The Day Data Transparency Died: How Twitter/X Cut Off Access for Social Research

作者：Elizabeth Blakey · 发表于：Contexts · 年份：2024 · DOI：10.1177/15365042241252125 · 被引用次数：14 · 研究领域：Social Media and Politics

For 17 years, Twitter/X provided free academic access—not by law, but by social contract—to its data for researchers examining elections, hate speech, and other crucial public issues. It took just six months under Elon Musk to rescind this unfettered access and upend global scholarship.