Art. 40 DSA and Research data access in the German Federal Election: A mixed experience at best

Jan Rau, Philipp Kessling, Gregor Wiedemann und Felix Victor Münch | 2025

Article 40 of the DSA aims at enabling research data access and strengthening transparency in the context of very large online platforms. However, the reality of our research in the run up of the German Federal Election were stalled applications, highly restrictive and limited data access, insufficient documentation, unresponsive support and technical problems with service reliability.

Date

21.05.2025

Language

German

Publication Type

Blog post

Discipline

Communication and Media Studies

Keywords

Democracy , Extremism , Media/communication , Networks/bubbles , Polarization , Populism

Audience

Interested citizens , Scientists