It's hard to overstate how much of a disaster it'd be for fact-checkers and reporters if Meta ditched its research tool CrowdTangle for good. My list of stories where it helped our team pick up key misinformation narratives and patterns is very long.
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It's the old, old story.
They'd rather hide it than fix it - easier, cheaper and (above all) less embarrassing.
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Uhm, the "fact checkers" were never that. They were opinion commentators.
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It's fascinating (and scary) to really think about the power and implications of such tools in our society - CrowdTangle being a good example of that.
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