Elon Musk says Twitter transparency builds trust. It’s all talk no action

Elon Musk is making Twitter more opaque for academics who’ve used its data for years to study social media’s impact on society, as well as those who used its database of tweets as a lens into human psychology. This is happening despite his promises to improve transparency on the platform.

Before Musk took over, Twitter had actively helped researchers obtain data that let them study how information flowed around the network, how social media shapes people’s views, and how it can be used to manipulate. Behavioral and computer scientists used Twitter’s data to show how social media can influence what we pay attention to and psychologists have studied how algorithms might be changed to promote high-quality information.