Monitoring the implementation of the Code of Practice on Disinformation in empowering the research community in Croatia and Slovenia

This report is part of the research activities carried out within the ADMO project. The aim was to monitor the implementation of the Code of Practice on Disinformation in empowering the research community in Croatia and Slovenia.

Key findings:

• Access to platform data for researchers in the EU is still in its early stages.
• Researchers used data from Meta (N=9), X (N=8), Google (N=5), TikTok (N=2), Reddit (N=2) and Microsoft (N=1).
• Four researchers (N=4) requested “access to Metadata “four or more times. On average, the approval process took “more than 8 weeks” for five researchers (N=5), and six researchers (N=6) reported that access to data was denied without explanation.
• Five researchers (N=5) from Croatia and Slovenia reported being treated unequally or unfairly when applying for data access compared to other regions/countries.
• Seven researchers (N=7) reported that accessing the data from X and Meta was “difficult” or “very difficult” for them.
• Five researchers (N=5) had their access to platform data withdrawn after being granted access.