Meta plans to discontinue CrowdTangle.

Meta, Facebook's parent company, will shut down CrowdTangle, a digital tool used by researchers to track viral falsehoods, in August, amid a crucial election year. Researchers fear this move will disrupt efforts to detect political misinformation, as CrowdTangle provided real-time transparency into the spread of conspiracy theories and hate speech on Meta-owned platforms like Facebook and Instagram. Meta plans to replace CrowdTangle with a new tool called the Content Library, which experts claim lacks the same functionality and will not be accessible to news organizations.

April 01, 2024
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