Join us on April 30th for Elections: A Test of Transparency How are researchers and journalists monitoring platforms to maintain the integrity of elections and democratic values? How will big tech impact elections in 2024? RSVP now!
Elections: A Test of Transparency
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You can find links to all the data access forms from Meta, YT, TimTok, Snap etc in the annex of this document: https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/library/status-report-mechanisms-researcher-access-online-platform-data
Hi! I'm joining from Toronto, Canada 👋
How does the panel think voters' trust in elections and institutions generally will change in the coming years? Are you generally hopeful or concerned? Curious for comments from the different regions panelists are based in, as each region will be impacted differently depending on the local social, political and legislative context
Brandon do you think that a citizen group of osint investigators can be activated to find and archive human rights information in the meanwhile?
The EU's influence goes beyond setting the laws and their borders. Last year I worked with the EU to monitor elections in Zimbabwe. They used the access and laws to monitor social media data in our country. Without that and tools like Crowdtanlge Civic society would have been flying blind at a critical moment.
Hello from London 👋
There is a lot of self-interest from platforms. How can funds be made available for more independent research to address the problems raised by the brilliant panel? How can stakeholder engagement be broadened in a non-partisan manner to engeander transparency? How can disadvantaged regions such as Africa be included in a more relevant way?
Postdoctoral Research Fellow. Researching Digitilisation in the Public Sector, Democracy, Protests, Politics and Media.
1moHello from Johannesburg, South Africa