Daphne Keller

Director of Platform Regulation, Stanford Law School LST Program. Former Google (2004-2015) Legal Director for Web Search, Speech and Intermediary Liability Issues. May be cranky. https://law.stanford.edu/daphne-keller/

Articles & links

This paper about the publicly available data that is missing from Meta's and TikTok's research tools/APIs, by Luka Bekavac and Simon Mayer, is super interesting. And this graphic is a doozy. arxiv.org/html/2601.12...

Auditing Meta and TikTok Research API Data Access under Article 40(12) of the Digital Services Act arxiv.org
AI Weekly's analysis
  • An audit from the University of St. Gallen found vetted researchers can pull only about 75% of TikTok and 50% of Instagram posts shown to users.
  • Of the posts that come through, only 17% of TikTok and 42% of Instagram metadata parameters reach researchers, with moderation context systematically stripped.
  • The paper concludes current research-access implementations fall short of the DSA's intended oversight function because removed and downranked content rarely survives in researcher datasets.
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