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Meta just closed a vital online research tool. It’s bad news for the fight against misinformation.

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Meta just closed a vital online research tool. It’s bad news for the fight against misinformation.

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Meta just closed a vital online research tool. It’s bad news for the fight against misinformation

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CrowdTangle helped researchers and journalists track viral online falsehoods. Its closure in a key election year is dangerous

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Easy. Stop using Meta

It is trash

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