Comment by _trampeltier
5 months ago
"Other platforms have granted us access to systematically track public debates on their platforms, but X has refused to do so," said DRI's Michael Meyer-Resende in a statement on Wednesday, announcing the lawsuit.
What others share just info for free?
> What others share just info for free?
Given it's a legal obligation? The ones whose boss isn't personally interfering with a foreign election.
Where can we download that data you're referring to?
I assume it varies by platform. Meta has a service that makes data available to vetted academic researchers, for example, so keep in mind that "available to researchers" does not necessarily mean that one can just post a link to it on Hacker News.
If there's a specific platform you're thinking of, there's probably someone in here that can direct you to the right place. What platform are you thinking of?
Meta provides data to qualified researchers, which seems to satisfy the European law.
Facebook has its Researcher Platform for vetted academics: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/researcher-platform/
Perhaps there are fees involved, perhaps not, but yes, they do election monitoring on other services:
https://democracy-reporting.org/en/office/global/collection?...
Here's the press release TFA is based on:
https://democracy-reporting.org/en/office/EU/news/court-orde...
There is also the Meta Content Library and API (https://transparency.meta.com/en-gb/researchtools/meta-conte...) although that seems to contain only a subset of the data.