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Implementing Data Access of the Digital Services Act: Collaboration of European Digital Service Coordinators and Researchers in Building Strong Oversight over Social Media Platforms

  • The EU Digital Service Acts signals a move away from self-regulation towards co-regulation of social media platforms within the European Union. To address online harms and rising platform power the DSA clarifies responsibilities of platforms and outlines a new technology regulatory framework to increase oversight. One key oversight instrument constitutes Article 40 of the DSA, which lays out data access for vetted researchers, who add value to regulators and the broader public as creators of knowledge, educators, advisors, innovators, and watchdogs. Currently, the EU Commission and national governments make important decisions regarding Digital Service Coordinators (DSCs) that play a key role in implementation. Based on expertise on European public administration and political science we lay out key challenges and success factors of DSCs that will play a role in promoting successful cooperation between DSCs and researchers. We provide three recommendations: First, we recommend to strengthen transfer of scientific knowledge into policy-making by processing publicly accessible publications within public administrative bodies. To this end, capacities of DSCs need to be increased. In addition, we also point towards the database of vetted researchers collected by the Board of DSCs as important resource in order to strengthen knowledge transfer. Second, the DSC network requires agile institutions with fast response time in order to enable researchers to play a constructive role in implementation. This also includes institutional procedures between DSCs and the Intermediary Body and Data Protection Agencies. To avoid delay in implementation agile institution-building needs to start now. Finally, institutional safeguards will help to avoid strategic choice of companies of the DSC of establishment. At the same time, the Irish DSC's capacity should be strengthened compared to other national DSCs since most large intermediary services providers have their European headquarters in Ireland.

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Document Type:Working Paper
Language:English
Author(s):Philipp DariusORCiD, Daniela StockmannORCiD, Joanna BrysonORCiD, Luciana Cingolani, Rachel Griffin, Gerhard HammerschmidORCiD, Maximilian Kupi, Haytham Mones, Simon MunzertORCiD, Rónán RiordanORCiD, Simona Stockreiter
Publication year:2023
Publishing Institution:Hertie School
Number pages:11
DOI:https://doi.org/10.48462/opus4-4947
Release Date:2023/05/16
Hertie School Research:Publications PhD Researchers
Centre for Digital Governance
Data Science Lab
AY 22/23:AY 22/23
Licence of document (German):Creative Commons - CC BY-ND - Namensnennung - Keine Bearbeitungen 4.0 International
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