To comply with European transparency laws, Facebook came out with a replacement tool called the Meta Content Library, that it claims is better than CrowdTangle. That claim also turns out not to be true. Earlier this year, my newsroom Proof News worked with the Tau Center and the Algorithmic Transparency Institute to compare Meta's new tool with... See more

Journalists and researchers used CrowdTangle to reveal just how far propaganda and lies were spreading across Facebook

the craziest thing about this new algorithmic life we were all leading was that none of us had any idea what anyone else was seeing

The zeitgeist moved online and became personalized. My newsstand became the items in my feed and it looked entirely different from your newsstand, which was items in your feed. And that was entirely different from my mom's feed and your brother's feed and your uncle's feed. And in the beginning we felt like we had some control over these feeds by... See more