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Revisiting the APIcalypse and Its Aftermath

Snurb — Wednesday 18 March 2026 08:47
Politics | ‘Fake News’ | 'Big Data' | Social Media | Facebook | Twitter | Social Media Access Days 2026 | Liveblog |

Day Two at the Social Media Access Days in Frankfurt starts with my keynote, taking stock of how we access and engage with social media data nearly ten years after the drastic changes to many platforms' data access regimes following the 2018 Cambridge Analytica scandal. Back then, I wrote an article for Information, Communication & Society about the APIcalypse; how have things developed since then?

Here are my slides from the talk:

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