Home / Tag Archives: Meta shuts monitoring tool in US election year

Tag Archives: Meta shuts monitoring tool in US election year

Meta shuts monitoring tool in US election year


April 2, 2024

WASHINGTON: A digital tool considered vital in tracking viral falsehoods, CrowdTangle will be decommissioned by Facebook owner Meta in a major election year, a move researchers fear will disrupt efforts to detect an expected firehose of political misinformation. The tech giant says CrowdTangle will be unavailable after August 14, less than three months bef­ore the US election. The Palo Alto …

Read More »