Members of the Coalition for Independent Technology Research today requested leave to intervene in X v. European Commission. X’s Digital Services Act violations have prevented researchers from using publicly available data for their research. CITR requested to intervene in support of the EU Commission on this case, because CITR members and the entire technology research … Continue reading CITR Members Intervene in DSA Court Case to uphold Data Access for Public Interest Research
A Win for Democracy, Transparency, and Research: Standing alongside DRI and GFF
By CITR Team
This week, the Coalition for Independent Technology Research proudly stood in solidarity with our members and peers at Democracy Reporting International (DRI) and Society for Civil Rights (Gesellschaft für Freiheitsrechte, GFF) in Germany as they brought a critical case against X to the Berlin Regional Court. DRI and GFF challenged X’s refusal to provide DRI … Continue reading A Win for Democracy, Transparency, and Research: Standing alongside DRI and GFF
A Case For Ethical and Transparent Research Experiments in the Public Interest
By Sarah Gilbert, Michael Zimmer, Nathan Matias, Ethan Zuckerman
On April 26, moderators of r/ChangeMyView, a community on Reddit dedicated to understanding the perspectives of others, revealed that academic researchers from the University of Zürich conducted a large-scale, unauthorized AI experiment on their community. The researchers had used AI bots to secretly impersonate people for experiments in persuasion. Crucially, this experiment was carried out … Continue reading A Case For Ethical and Transparent Research Experiments in the Public Interest
Press Release: Meta Kills CrowdTangle, Endangering People and Democracy Both On- and Offline
By The CITR Team
14 Aug—Today, despite numerous appeals from policymakers, researchers, journalists and the public at large, Meta has gone through with the shutdown of its celebrated data transparency tool CrowdTangle. The company’s announcement that it has made improvements to its new Content Library is welcome, but this tool lacks crucial functions which allow civil society to track … Continue reading Press Release: Meta Kills CrowdTangle, Endangering People and Democracy Both On- and Offline