WASHINGTON: 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 tech giant says CrowdTangle will be unavailable after Aug 14, less than three months before the US election. The Palo Alto company plans to replace it with a new tool that researchers say lacks the same functionality, and which news organisations will largely not have access to.
It's a tool that some in the tech industry, including former CrowdTangle chief executive Brandon Silverman, said is currently not an effective replacement, especially in elections likely to see a proliferation of AI-enabled falsehoods. In the 2020 presidential vote, the company offered the tool to US election officials across all states to help them"quickly identify misinformation, voter interference and suppression."
The new tool lacks CrowdTangle features including robust search flexibility and decommissioning it would be a"direct threat" to the integrity of elections, it added.
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