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Meta axed CrowdTangle, a tool for tracking disinformation. Critics claim its replacement has just ‘1% of the features’


Journalists, researchers, and politicians are mourning Meta's shutdown of CrowdTangle, which they used to track the spread of disinformation on Facebook

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