for Europe right now, I think that I would feel pretty defeated and despondent in this moment.

It is certainly become much, much more difficult for outside researchers to do the sorts of, right,

of the options that you list, Samir,

to actually engage directly with people at the platforms

because there's simply fewer of them, right?

We spent literally years building up relationships

with good folks at all these platforms

who are trying to do the right thing.

And for the most part, they're gone, right?

It's really, really difficult to know who to reach out to who to work with

if it weren't for the European Union and the Digital Services Act I don't know that we'd have much hope of rectifying that

situation at all. But given the sort of requirements that for performing risk

assessments for sharing more transparent information with the public

and crucially for sharing data with researchers.

I do think that we still have some options for leverage to continue the work that we've been doing.

And hopefully ultimately that leads to a sort of re-staffing of some of these positions,

increased focus again as the DSA begins to come into force and the

platforms feel the real pressure of actual enforcement action. This is the primal scream of a dying regime.

Pray for our enemies.

Because we're going to medieval on these people.

Here's no time I got a free shot on all these networks lying about the people.

The people have had a bellyful of it.

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