Journalists, researchers and politicians are mourning Meta’s shutdown of CrowdTangle, which they used to track the spread of disinformation on Facebook and Instagram. In CrowdTangle’s place ...

Meta added safety features to CrowdTangle ahead of the European Parliament elections in June 2024, before shutting down its operations to avoid regulatory action. Meta has long made attempts to ...

An analysis from Proof News cited 11 features, including the ability to see social media metrics over time and dashboard sharing, that Meta Content Library lacked compared to CrowdTangle when used ...

like the ability to see how many people have viewed a public post and access to comments and short-form videos (an increasingly significant form of social content), it also lacks many of the features ...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Facebook and Instagram parent Meta Platforms has shut down CrowdTangle, a tool widely used by researchers, watchdog organizations and journalists to monitor social media ...

Keegan’s telling, the loss of tools like CrowdTangle and Pushshift—which allow researchers ... concerns about safeguarding user data in justifying the removal of key features for research labs, ...

A group of prominent lawmakers sent a letter to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg Thursday asking the company to delay its shutdown of CrowdTangle by six months. In their letter, the lawmakers argued that ...

Hickey said Meta’s content library offers some of the same data from CrowdTangle, but ultimately only “1% of the features.” “If you wanted to look at the number of followers that CNN’s ...

An analysis from Proof News cited 11 features, including the ability to see social media metrics over time and dashboard sharing, that Meta Content Library lacked compared to CrowdTangle when used ...

Meta Platforms Inc. on Wednesday shuttered CrowdTangle, a popular social media analysis tool that journalists, civic groups and researchers used to monitor trending posts on platforms like ...