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A mixture of bad tech legislation, concerns over Russian interference, and good old-fashioned anti-competitive tendencies.

Having itself supplanted MySpace, Facebook is in a good position to see how easy data-exports can help competitors supplant a dominant company.

3rd-party clients are also a good way to remove ads and tracking, which is obviously not in Twitter or Facebook's best financial interest.

Yet they still provide with tools to export all data . So i don't think the migration of users is a major concern for them.

I 'm personally all in favor of making the APIs open and unlimited again, but within a month you 'll have journalists nagging again

Export tools happened after GDPR.

they existed long before gdpr, e.g.:

This fight is much older than that. If you want to get sad, read this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FriendFeed