Meta angers journalists with move to ditch misinformation tracking tool for its own

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Journalists, researchers, and regulators are up in arms after Facebook and Instagram’s parent company, Meta, shut down a tool used to track the spread of misinformation known as CrowdTangle on Wednesday.

According to the Mozilla Foundation, more than 60,000 people have signed letters and petitions calling on Meta to wait another six months before shutting down the tool. 

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