Lab Platform Governance, Media and Technology (PGMT)

Tag: YouTube

  • YouTube now permitting misinformation about US elections

    YouTube ‧ Community Guidelines · June 2, 2023 YouTube changed its guidelines now allowing false claims regarding the 2020 and other past US presidential elections on their site. An updated YouTube elections misinformation policy implies that the platform will no longer remove false information about any past US presidential election, including claims about widespread fraud,…

  • Current research access programs to social media data: what they offer, what are the limitations?

    Review of YouTube, Meta, and TikTok researcher access. In lieu of the enforcement of the Digital Services Act in the EU, which would supposedly make data access easier for researchers, this blog post reviews current data access programs for the academics. What kind of data do platforms allow to access and by whom?  Read a…