CrowdTangle helps researchers track disinformation, but Meta will close it down before the US election. The tool's cofounder, Brandon Silverman, says it's time to force companies to share data.
Earlier this month, Meta announced that it would be shutting down CrowdTangle, the social media monitoring and transparency tool that has allowed journalists and researchers to track the spread of mis- and disinformation. It will cease to function on August 14, 2024—just months before the US presidential election. Meta’s move is just the latest example of a tech company rolling back transparency and security measures as the world enters the biggest global election year in history.
Alibaba, TikTok, YouTube—which has been a black box forever—are now spinning up these programs. It's been very quiet, because they don't necessarily want a ton of people using them. In some cases companies add these programs to their terms of service but don't make any public announcement. I think there is a universe in which we're actually on the cusp of way more data being available than has ever been available before.
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