Petition | Meta has announced it will be abandoning CrowdTangle, its industry leading transparency tool, this August - in the middle of the biggest election year on record
Petition | Meta has announced it will be abandoning CrowdTangle, its industry leading transparency tool, this August - in the middle of the biggest election year on record
Meta has announced it will be abandoning CrowdTangle, its industry leading transparency tool, this August - in the middle of the biggest election year on record.
TELL META: Don't Kill Your Crucial Transparency Tool, CrowdTangle!
Meta has announced it will be abandoning CrowdTangle, its industry leading transparency tool, this August - in the middle of the biggest election year on record.
CrowdTangle is used by thousands of researchers, journalists and advocates to monitor political disinformation and hate speech on Facebook and Instagram.
The decision to kill this crucial tool without an equivalent replacement couldn’t come at a worse time: Elections affecting approximately half of the world’s population are taking place this year. Meta’s irresponsible decision poses a direct threat to our ability to safeguard the integrity of these elections - but we can still stop it.
Sign the petition now to call on Meta to maintain CrowdTangle during this critical period of elections worldwide to protect election integrity in 2024 and beyond!
Meta abandoning CrowdTangle during an election year has the same vibe as an officer turning off a body camera right before a confrontation.
What a surprise, the company that has been proven to sway the course of elections for profit might well do it again!
That's not fair. They also did it for control!
Don't just sign a petition.
Delete your facebook and instagram.
I did that 8 or 9 years ago, before it was cool.
Nice!
I did not, though my facebook is deleted now. I just got sick of how it was making me miserable every time I opened it, so a year ago I nuked it.
I still have an instagram for my business, but once I have Cara up and running, I'm going to delete all the content there as well.
Finally did it a few months back. I'm slowly degoogling too, although I'm afraid I won't be ready to cut all ties for a bit more time.
It's really sad that tech ended up like this. It all seemed so exciting not that long ago.
Amen and I think you're preaching to the choir on that one lol
What a stain on humanity Zuckerberg has been.
He took advantage of the Myspace potential and has gone almost unchallenged and unchecked. He needs to pay for his crimes.
Lol just made a little rant about it . Zuck definetly isn't paying up enough and even EU seems not that strong towards them .
If they are capable of taking this decision during such an important time, why would an internet petition change their views? The only way to have them do it is regulation that will hurt their turnover if they don't comply.
In what way is this year the biggest election year on record? It’s literally the exact same candidates as it was 4 years ago.
There are other countries in the world that have elections apart from the US. More of them than ever before in one year are having them in 2024.
I know I'm feeding a troll, but US democracy is on the ballot this year. Previous years have been big years, but this could be the last election in the US. Trump getting to the White House will allow him to save himself, and he will be bringing Fascism to a whole new level in the US with Project 2025 and all the truly evil folks in his cult leadership circle.
It’s not just America having an election this year. India just had theirs and it’s the biggest election on Earth.
The US population increased by 0.5% in 2023, adding more than 1.6 million people to reach a total of 334,914,895.
They say that every election year.