Government of the United States of America (USA)

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) is an international organisation that works to build better policies for better lives. Our goal is to shape policies that foster prosperity,[...]

Subject tag: Child safety | Terrorism and violent extremism

EU – US Trade and Technology Council

The Trade and Technology Council was set up at the June 2021 EU-US summit and serves as a forum for the European Union and the United States to coordinate approaches[...]

Subject tag: Algorithmic systems | Data Access | Privacy and data protection

Christchurch Call

The Christchurch Call is a community of over 120 governments, online service providers, and civil society organisations acting together to eliminate terrorist and violent extremist content online.

Subject tag: Terrorism and violent extremism

Freedom Online Coalition

The Freedom Online Coalition is a group of countries deeply committed to the human rights and fundamental freedoms proclaimed in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. We believe that the[...]

Subject tag: Government transparency | Privacy and data protection

Open Government Partnership (OGP)

In 2011, government leaders and civil society advocates came together to create a unique partnership—one that combines these powerful forces to promote transparent, participatory, inclusive and accountable governance. The Open[...]

Subject tag: Government transparency

Election

The United States of America (USA): Presidential election date (Cycle of 4 Years)

November 5, 2024

Where: The United States of America (USA)

[This information was sourced from Anchor Change’s Election Cycle Tracker with minor technical edits. It was exported on 8 June 2023 and may have been updated since then. In situations[...]

Subject tag: Presidential election

Data sharing mechanism or programme

Twitter Archive at the Library of Congress

In 2010, the Library of Congress announced an exciting and groundbreaking acquisition—a gift from Twitter of the entire archive of public tweet text beginning with the first tweets of 2006[...]

Published date: December 26, 2017

Subject tag: Data Access

Government policy documents

Proposed US Social Media Disclosure and Transparency of Advertisements Act of 2021

This section establishes a Working Group for Social Media Research Access that will • Offer input into a Best Practices and Code of Conduct Report, which will be published by[...]

Published date: May 25, 2021

Subject tag: Advertising | Data Access | Privacy and data protection

Government policy documents

Proposed US Platform Accountability and Consumer Transparency Act

The Director of the National Institute of Standards and Technology will develop a voluntary framework that, among other things, will include standards and processes for providing researchers access to data[...]

Published date: December 10, 2021

Subject tag: Algorithmic systems | Data Access

Legislation or legislative material

Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA)

The “Kids Online Safety Act” is a bill introduced in the United States Senate by Senators Richard Blumenthal and Marsha Blackburn in February 2022 and reintroduced in May 2023; the[...]

Published date: May 2, 2023

Subject tag: Child safety

Legislation or legislative material

Digital Services Oversight and Safety Act of 2022

This bill establishes the Bureau of Digital Services Oversight and Safety within the Federal Trade Commission to provide oversight for content moderation by online platforms (e.g., social media companies). Content[...]

Published date: February 18, 2022

Subject tag: Child safety | Content moderation | Disinformation and misinformation | Terrorism and violent extremism

Legislation or legislative material

Social Media DATA Act

This bill requires consumer-facing websites and mobile applications with a large number of users to maintain advertisement libraries and make them available to academic researchers and the Federal Trade Commission[...]

Published date: May 20, 2021

Subject tag: Advertising | Data Access