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Twitter Is Denying Access To Its Data To A Prominent Opioid Sales Researcher

Quoted: “I think this perfectly illustrates the fundamental transformation we’re seeing in how we all communicate, and in how researchers study that communication,” University of Wisconsin communications professor Dietram Scheufele told BuzzFeed News. In the past, scholars could study newspaper articles without buying a subscription or asking for a stream of electronic articles, for example, but in an age of social media, access to data has become more fraught.