Twitter Moderation Research Consortium Opens Applications to More Researchers

It was established earlier this year to study governance issues on the platform

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Researchers can now apply for membership in the Twitter Moderation Research Consortium, which the social network initially discussed last December as a global group of experts from academia, civil society, journalism and nongovernmental organizations to study governance issues on its platform.

The company said that since the TMRC was formed early this year, tens of thousands of researchers have had access to 52 datasets containing 9 terabytes of media and more than 220 million tweets.

Twitter said membership is open to global researchers across academia, civil society, journalism and non-governmental organizations.

Head of safety and integrity Yoel Roth wrote in a blog post Thursday, “By providing academics and researchers with access to specific, granular data (not just aggregated reports), we enable them to find insights and contextualize information in a way that increases the visibility of the reports themselves.”

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