Facebook shuts down important research tool

[Hanno Labuschagne]

Facebook shuts down important research tool

For more than a decade, researchers and journalists have relied on a digital tool called CrowdTangle to track and fight the spread of viral falsehoods online.

But earlier this week, the owner of CrowdTangle, Meta, shut the tool down. The tech giant has replaced it with its new Content Library, which it says will serve the same purpose and be “more user friendly”.

[The Conversation]

 

[sensus communis]

They don't even hide it anymore , if you do not agree with mainstream it is false rightwing misinformation

 

[rvZA]

Liberal socialist communist promotion tool. This is the type of practices Facebook is involved with.

 

[Swa]

To be fair, what purpose did it really serve and for whom? During Covid it was the users who pointed out the real misinformation and who had an agenda.