Meta Sets Final Date to Shut Down CrowdTangle Monitoring App

Meta announced that it’s shutting down CrowdTangle, the social media analytics tool acquired by Facebook in 2016, despite its widespread use by academic researchers and journalists. CrowdTangle stated on its website that the platform has entered into “maintenance mode,” during which users will be blocked from adding new members to their accounts. Users can continue to access CrowdTangle’s User Interface, API, historical data feature, and the Chrome Extension until the platform closed down on Aug. 14, according to the update. CrowdTangle will be replaced with Meta Content Library, a new monitoring tool that will be accessible to those “who conduct research” and “maintain an affiliation with a qualified nonprofit or academic institution.”...