In 2021, CrowdTangle’s team was disbanded, and in 2022, new user registrations were cut off. Now, the site is set to officially shut down on August 14, as reported by the Wall Street Journal. CrowdTangle has been a valuable tool for journalists and academics to analyze the flow of content on Facebook and Instagram, including the spread of conspiracy theories and fake news. Meta’s decision to shut down the company is not surprising, considering it has been linked to many of the social media conglomerate’s shortcomings.
Replacing CrowdTangle is a tool called Meta Content Library, which will only be available to academics and nonprofit researchers. For-profit news organizations will not have access to this new platform, which appears to be a diluted version of CrowdTangle. Meta claims that the Content Library, designed in response to the European Union’s Digital Markets Act, will offer new features such as data on public comments and the ability to search content based on views. However, early testers have found…
2024-03-14 19:23:50
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