what the future holds

We had hoped to write in this conclusion that the future of social media research
is not only certain but bright. Yet we remain quite unsure how the tensions we

10 To be clear, we are referring to unconstrained rights of refusal to allow publication. We are not
suggesting, for example, that platforms that have provided data to researchers under particular
conditions (e.g., that publications only release aggregated as opposed to individual-level data) do
not have the right to ensure compliance with terms of data-use agreements.

11 We are grateful to the Knight Foundation and the Social Science Research Council (SSRC) for
convening a meeting in the fall of 2018 – in which one of us (Tucker) served as a co-convener and
the other (Persily) was a participant – where these questions and potential guidelines were
explicitly discussed.

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