In an op-ed for Euractiv, Democracy Reporting International Digital Democracy Program Officer Lena-Maria Böswald said Twitter's fee for access to its developer application programming interface could be "at odds with EU law." She said access to platform data for eligible researchers is required to comply with European law, but it is unclear whether the EU Digital Services Act explicitly requires free access. If so, she noted, Twitter's new "barriers to data access" could "result in significant fines under the DSA."