"Other platforms have granted us access to systematically track public debates o...

ben_w · 2025-02-07T18:18:44 1738952324

> 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.

ivewonyoung · 2025-02-07T18:50:18 1738954218

Where can we download that data you're referring to?

protimewaster · 2025-02-07T19:17:04 1738955824

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?

pavlov · 2025-02-07T19:19:38 1738955978

Meta provides data to qualified researchers, which seems to satisfy the European law.

warkdarrior · 2025-02-07T18:18:07 1738952287

Facebook has its Researcher Platform for vetted academics: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/researcher-platform/

cess11 · 2025-02-07T18:16:24 1738952184

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...

throwaway_20357 · 2025-02-07T18:20:36 1738952436

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.