Independent Researchers and Journalists Mourn the Loss of CrowdTangle

18/10/2024 26 min
Independent Researchers and Journalists Mourn the Loss of CrowdTangle

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In this episode, we're crashing a funeral... for CrowdTangle, a piece of software that allowed journalists and independent researchers to get insights into social media. Not our usual material, but this particular loss marks a huge blow in the ongoing fight for public access to data from the platforms, and underscores why we need to continue to fight for transparency. And the folks convened by the Knight-Georgetown Institute and the Coalition for Independent Technology Research refused to let it go unmarked.

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