Mathias Vermeulen

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Reads and writes about EU #techpolicy #digitalservicesact #contentregulation #privacy #disinformation #accesstodata.

Director at AWO, ex UN, European Parliament, EUI and Mozilla.

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Websitehttps://www.awo.agency
Latest articlehttps://tsjournal.org/index.php/jots/article/view/84
Old SSRN pagehttps://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=929086
Birdsitehttps://twitter.com/mathver
Mathias VermeulenDec 5, 2023
Renee DiRestaDec 4, 2023

The opening post of an important new coverage theme on Just Security. These attacks are happening to so many people who work on various facets of election protection and it’s critical to understand just how coordinated and deliberate it is.

https://www.justsecurity.org/90417/americas-election-officials-fight-disinformation-and-death-threats-ahead-of-2024/

America's Election Officials Fight Disinformation and Death Threats Ahead of 2024

Disinformation stemming from the 2020 vote still leads to overwhelming records requests, retirements, and threats towards election officials.

Just Security
Show threadMathias VermeulenNov 29, 2023
Please reach out to me if you have applied for public data on X and/or have obtained actually access to data. (8/9) #dsa
Show threadMathias VermeulenNov 29, 2023
X also asks to disclose direct "and indirect" sources of funding (5/9). #dsa
Show threadMathias VermeulenNov 29, 2023
If you scroll down X's developer's platform site you can fill in a form 2/9) #dsa
Mathias VermeulenNov 29, 2023
X has - rather quietly - rolled out a new way to provide researchers access to public data on X, as required per article 40.12 of the Digital Services Act. How can you do get access? See the thread below 👇#dsa (1/9)
Show threadMathias VermeulenNov 29, 2023
Finally, this is again a reminder that the DSA is real, in effect, and produces changes. Legislators and regulators do take note. (9/9) #dsa
Show threadMathias VermeulenNov 29, 2023
I don't know anyone at this point who has applied or has successfully obtained access, under which conditions. The 12 VLOPs (Meta, YouTube, TikTok, Linkedin etc) which currently offer a researcher API all do this for free. I expect this offer to be free as well. (7/9) #dsa
Show threadMathias VermeulenNov 29, 2023
There hasn't been a formal announcement or blog post to announce this change as far as I know. X did adapt its Developer Terms two weeks ago, as reported for instance by TechCrunch (6/9) https://techcrunch.com/2023/11/17/change-in-xs-terms-indicate-eu-researchers-will-get-api-access/ #dsa
Change in X's terms indicate EU researchers will get API access | TechCrunch

X Changes its developer terms to indicate it might give API access to researchers in the EU to comply with DSA.

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Show threadMathias VermeulenNov 29, 2023
This brings you to the application form (a google doc) which is pretty much in sync with similar forms that I analysed (new paper on this topic coming soon-ish btw) #dsa (3/9) https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdo0O-D6Kxa3cV4g1JLz2T_0Sk3hdEnTdv8dJmibagCnzJ7kg/viewform&followup=https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdo0O-D6Kxa3cV4g1JLz2T_0Sk3hdEnTdv8dJmibagCnzJ7kg/viewform&ltmpl=forms&authuser=0
Show threadMathias VermeulenNov 29, 2023
However,there are some notable elements in the application form. In order to determine whether researchers are "independent from commercial interests" (as required by article 40.8.b) X asks information about a much broader category of affiliated entities to assess an application (4/9) #dsa