Elon Musk’s X restructuring curtails disinformation research, spurs legal fears
The reduced ability to study the platform ‘makes users on X vulnerable to more hate speech, more misinformation and more disinformation’
06 November 2023 - 20:43
Social media researchers have cancelled, suspended or changed more than 100 studies about X, formerly Twitter, as a result of actions taken by Elon Musk that limit access to the social media platform, nearly a dozen interviews and a survey of planned projects show...
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