Twitter’s headquarters in San Francisco. The company’s latest change will make it harder to researchers to study the platform. David Odisho/Getty Images
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Much of what we know about social media discourse is thanks to Twitter’s longtime policy of allowing free access to its data. That has made Twitter data a treasure trove for researchers eager to study online behavior, including how falsehoods and conspiracy theories circulate. Kate Starbird remembers how Twitter research dominated the field between 2010 and 2015.
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