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'Grave step backwards': Meta shuts monitoring tool in election year
'Grave step backwards': Meta shuts monitoring tool in election year
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by  AFP

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 tool also made dashboards available to the public to track what major candidates were posting on their official and campaign pages.