Official reason
CrowdTangle is being deprecated; new tools via Meta Content Library.
Meta · Developer Tools
CrowdTangle
RIP
2011–2024 · 13 years in market
The transparency tool researchers and journalists used to watch Facebook. Shut in a political storm.
Launched
Jan 1, 2011
Discontinued
Aug 14, 2024
Cause of death
Strategic refocus
What actually happened
A product that made Facebook look bad internally was never going to be loved internally.
Lesson
Transparency products need independence. If the platform owns the flashlight, it will dim it.
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