Meta reportedly plans to shut down its viral news tracker CrowdTangle

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Meta reportedly plans to shut down its viral news tracker CrowdTangle
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Meta owns a tool that many people use to chart which stories get the most engagement on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Now Bloomberg reports Meta is planning to shut down the tool, CrowdTangle.

One thing researchers have used to track the spread of viral stories on Facebook — including ones that spread misinformation — is a tool that Meta owns called CrowdTangle. Based on anonymous sources, Bloomberg reports what many have suspected — that Facebook has largely removed development support from CrowdTangle and is making plans to shut the tool down.

CrowdTangle does not track content from regular Facebook profiles. In a Twitter thread, Facebook’s head of the News Feed, John Hegeman, argued that Roose’s daily Top 10 lists show accurate engagement data but “don’t represent what most people see on FB.” He claims a better way to prove that would be through data showing which posts get the most reach, but the company doesn’t usually share that data directly.

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