(Bloomberg) -- Meta Platforms Inc. on Wednesday shuttered CrowdTangle, a popular social media analysis tool that journalists, civic groups and researchers used to monitor trending posts on ...

Meta has shut down CrowdTangle, the analytics tool that for years helped tens of thousands of researchers, journalists and civil society groups understand how information was spreading on Facebook ...

At an MIT Technology Review conference in May, Meta’s president of global affairs Nick Clegg was asked why the company wouldn’t wait to shut down CrowdTangle until after the election.

On Wednesday, Meta Platforms, Inc. (NASDAQ:META) shut down CrowdTangle, a social media analysis tool used for monitoring trending posts on Facebook and Instagram. CrowdTangle helped journalists ...

On Wednesday, less than three months before the U.S. election, Meta is shutting CrowdTangle down. “Against this backdrop, Meta decided to kill one of the best tools that civil society had to ...

In a similar move, Meta shut down CrowdTangle, a monitoring platform for Facebook and Instagram that it once promoted to election officials in all 50 states “to help them quickly identify ...

It’s the end of an era for social media research. Meta has shut down CrowdTangle, the analytics tool that for years helped tens of thousands of researchers, journalists and civil society groups ...