En pleno año electoral, Meta cierra la herramienta de seguimiento de desinformación #CrowdTangle
🔴 Llamamos a usuarixs de Facebook a instalarse @whotargetsme en el navegador para rastrear malas praxis de partidos políticos en las elecciones europeas.
« L̶e̶ ̶g̶é̶a̶n̶t̶ ̶d̶e̶s̶ ̶r̶é̶s̶e̶a̶u̶x̶ ̶s̶o̶c̶i̶a̶u̶x̶ #Meta vient de mettre hors service #CrowdTangle, un logiciel considéré comme essentiel pour repérer et analyser la désinformation sur #Facebook et #Instagram. Les chercheurs critiquent cette mesure avant les élections américaines. »
#SocialMedia#Elections#Meta#ElectionsIntegrity#CrowdTangle: "On 14 March, Meta announced it would abandon CrowdTangle, the tool used by tens of thousands of journalists, watchdogs, and election observers to monitor the integrity of elections around the world. Meta will shut down CrowdTangle on 14 August, without an effective replacement, ahead of elections in the United States, Brazil, and Australia and in the wake of elections in India, South Africa, and Mexico — endangering both pre- and post election monitoring.
Meta’s decision will effectively prohibit the outside world, including election integrity experts, from seeing what’s happening on Facebook and Instagram — during the biggest election year on record. This means almost all outside efforts to identify and prevent political disinformation, incitements to violence, and online harassment of women and minorities will be silenced. It’s a direct threat to our ability to safeguard the integrity of elections." https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/campaigns/open-letter-to-meta-support-crowdtangle-through-2024-and-maintain-crowdtangle-approach/
So is this a pivot away from #news on #Meta , as has been signaled is their current #manglement strategy on #Threads also of no hards news, after the founders from #CrowdTangle acquisition left #Facebook ? 🤔