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There are three areas — content moderation, transparency, and data access — to watch closely as Musk takes ownership of Twitter.

A look at our top articles, events, and more from the past year.

Congress should mandate an unprecedented corporate data-sharing program to enable outside, independent researchers to conduct the kinds of analysis on social media platforms that firm insiders routinely perform.

With access to these documents, scholars could support the media, public, and policymakers in identifying where Facebook’s internal research is conclusive, what inferences can be drawn, which topics require more evidence and future research, and what that research should be.

As the Facebook Papers revelations continue, it’s critical for the government, through legislation or regulation, to require social media platforms to be more transparent and open up more data to outside researchers.

A new book argues academic researchers should have more access to the data locked inside Facebook, Twitter, and other social media platforms.

Our co-director Joshua A. Tucker testified before the House Select Committee on the Modernization of Congress.