Snurblog summarizes a number of presentations from the recent iCS Symposium on Challenges to Studying Disinformation, including this keynote from Katrin Weller. It addresses some of the challenges in collectiong and sharing data from social media platforms. Successful data sharing "depends on sufficient answers to three critical perspectives: methodological, legal, and ethical. Researchers did not share datasets because of legal uncertainty, because they knew they had broken some platform rules in gathering their own datasets, or because they could not find a workable balance between scientific benefit and potential legal risks." P.S. while Katrin Weller discusses the difficulty of accessing social media data the vast bulk of her considerable output is locked behind subscription paywalls, so I can't read it.
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