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US lawmakers voiced “concern” Wednesday over Meta’s decision to shut down CrowdTangle — a digital tool considered vital in monitoring falsehoods –- in a major election year, urging the tech giant to delay the move by six months.
“We write with concern about Meta’s announced plan to end access” to the “powerful transparency tool,” a group of bipartisan lawmakers wrote in a letter to Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg. CrowdTangle has been a game-changer for years, offering researchers and journalists crucial real-time transparency into the spread of conspiracy theories and hate speech on influential Meta-owned platforms, including Facebook and Instagram.It’s a tool that some in the tech industry, including former CrowdTangle chief executive Brandon Silverman, say is currently not an effective replacement, especially in elections likely to see a proliferation of falsehoods enabled by artificial intelligence.
But the tech giant, which has been moving away from news across its platforms, will not make the new tool accessible to for-profit media.
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