This year, it is imperative the public have accurate information. That’s why ISD has co-led an effort of >50 advocacy groups & researchers to call on Meta to maintain CrowdTangle—a critical tool for information scrutiny—through the 2025 inauguration day.

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Some political & legal observations on what I think is the most important European Commission enforcement action to date under the Digital Services Act, against Meta for failing to take effective measures to prevent the spreading of (Russian) disinformation on their platforms 👇

Dawn Staley to the crowd:

'I want to personally thank Caitlin Clark for lifting up our sport. She carried a heavy load for our sport... She's gonna lift that league [WNBA] up... You are one of the GOATs of our game and we appreciate you.”

Super classy 👏
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From Anuj Chopra + Arthur MacMillan: Researchers fear the death of CrowdTangle will disrupt efforts to detect political misinformation in a major election year f24.my/AEF8.X

Meta shuts monitoring tool CrowdTangle in election year - Science & Tech - The Jakarta Post #jakpost bit.ly/3VEKfBY

'Grave step backwards'

In a major election year, Meta says it will shut down CrowdTangle, a vital tool in tracking viral falsehoods

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Meta to remove CrowdTangle, crucial software for spotting misinformation on Facebook and Instagram lemonde.fr/en/pixels/arti…

This project is fantastic and super important. The only thing I'd add is that if you are an academic or researcher interested in applying for access to some of the new public data programs, you can find all the applications here: iddp.gwu.edu/platform-trans…

Thank you for helping raise awareness @senatorchriscoons and for your leadership on PATA! Let’s hope Meta is also listening and up for considering a better plan this historic election year.

CrowdTangle has been indispensable to understand what is happening on Facebook, and I’m concerned about what its end will mean for the future of transparency. My bipartisan Platform Accountability and Transparency Act would ensure platforms make these important tools available.

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. wired.trib.al/VLSzgGT

As Rappler co-founder Chay Hofileña said, “Stop this now.” Meta how can you with all the elections in 2024? Appeal from your users aka citizens

Amazing to see more folks signing on to the Mozilla letter, including the Center for Democracy & Technology, Access Now, Rappler and Nobel Peace Prize winner Maria Ressa (!). einnews.com/pr_news/698110…

Earlier this month Meta announced it will abandon its election transparency tool during the biggest elections year on record.

Fast Company speaks to former CEO & Co-Founder Brandon Silverman here: bit.ly/3Vx9OVt

I got a chance to talk to Chris Stokel-Walker this weekend about some of my concerns about Meta's timing on closing CrowdTangle and why simply providing 'more data' doesn't always make a transparency solution better (especially if you're also taking other data away).

🚨 Breaking: Center for Countering Digital Hate has won dismissal on all counts against @ElonMusk's X Corp's outrageous and hypocritical SLAPP suit to silence our research.

This ruling sends a strong message to those who aim at intimidating and silencing independent research.

More from us soon.

For Fast Company I spoke to Brandon Silverman about his thoughts on Meta’s planned closure of CrowdTangle in a key election year
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Over half the world’s population will go to the polls this year, & Meta has decided to abandon its election integrity tool CrowdTangle, with no equal support in place for elections experts.

Along with over 90 partners, we’re asking them to reconsider: mzl.la/3TIFnKU