TECH - Meta's Strategy Against Election Disinformation - CrowdTangle Shutdown and New Initiatives | Benzinga
Meta Platforms Inc (NASDAQ:META) has announced plans to discontinue CrowdTangle, a widely utilized data tool by academic researchers, journalists, and others for tracking content dissemination on Facebook and Instagram.
The social media giant intends to replace CrowdTangle with the Meta Content Library in five months, limiting access exclusively to academic and nonprofit researchers, excluding most news outlets.
CrowdTangle’s decommissioning follows years of its use in studying the spread of misinformation and causing frustration among Meta’s leaders due to reporting that often highlighted problematic content spread, the Wall Street Journal reports.
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