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Seeing in the dark: Towards a broad construction of the access to data provisions of the DSA

Beatriz Botero Arcila, Sciences Po Law School
Pedro Ramaciotti, CNRS
Emma Cabale, ENS de Paris-Saclay
PUBLISHED ON: 19 Feb 2026 DOI: 10.14763/2026.1.2085

Drawing on cutting-edge social media research, the authors explain why vetted researchers need to be granted broad access to social media data to meet the objectives of the DSA.