nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20201130-220222-0 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 201130s2020||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20201130-220222-0 doi eng 342 23 Heldt, Amélie Author aut The Sorrows of Scraping for Science Why Platforms Struggle with Ensuring Data Access for Academics Heldt, Amélie Verfassungsblog 2020-11-30 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier Access to data is an overall challenge for researchers when investigating social media platforms' content moderation policies and practices. Researchers need empirical evidence to ground their arguments and public interest research. Platforms have not only not providing data, but are, in fact, further restricting access. Both platforms and governments should make an effort to improve on the availability of data for research, and, to this end, clarify the law in this space. funded by the government CC BY-SA 4.0 Data Access Facebook gdpr Research Transparency Kettemann, Matthias C. Author aut Leerssen, Paddy Author aut Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://staging.verfassungsblog.de/the-sorrows-of-scraping-for-science/ raw object