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  1. Method & policy 5 sources

    What the Digital Services Act changes for platform accountability

    The DSA replaced voluntary moderation commitments with named legal duties: a route for notices, a reason for every restriction, a public database of those reasons, audited risk assessments, and a legal path to platform data.

    dsa · platform-accountability · eu-law · transparency

  2. Method & policy 6 sources

    Chain of custody: what turns a saved page into evidence

    A screenshot shows that someone once had an image. Established standards ask for four further things: how the material was acquired, what fixes its content, what fixes its time, and who handled it in between.

    evidence · chain-of-custody · standards · method

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