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muriel_volestrangler

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2. The tweet "he'd do it no questions asked for Saudi Arabia etc." isn't quite right - these are independent researchers
Sun Feb 9, 2025, 08:14 AM
Feb 2025

who are asking for this data, to check for election interference. In Saudi Arabia, probably Turkey and maybe India, the researchers would be arrested; in all of them, the courts would side with Musk.

The lawsuit, brought earlier this week by Democracy Reporting International (DRI) and the Society for Civil Rights (GFF), accused X of blocking efforts to track potential election interference by not granting them access to key engagement data — including likes, shares and visibility metrics — that other platforms made available to researchers.
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The DSA [EU Digital Services Act], which came into force in 2022, requires large platforms to grant researchers access to data to study systemic risks. The Commission already accused X in July last year of breaching the DSA for not meeting requirements around researcher data access. It also quizzed Meta last year over its decision to shut down research tool CrowdTangle.

The Berlin Regional Court sided with the plaintiffs, issuing an urgent injunction that forces X to provide real-time access to the requested data via its online interface until Feb. 25. The ruling also orders X to pay legal costs and imposes a €6,000 procedural fine, setting a precedent for how European courts may enforce transparency obligations under the DSA.
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TikTok and Meta provided DRI with access to data based on a very similar application, the nonprofit told POLITICO earlier this week.

https://www.politico.eu/article/berlin-court-orders-x-hand-over-election-data-legal-blow-elon-musk-platform/

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