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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 (foundation.mozilla.org)

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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!

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[-] Gamers_Mate@kbin.run 211 points 3 weeks ago

Meta abandoning CrowdTangle during an election year has the same vibe as an officer turning off a body camera right before a confrontation.

[-] Guntrigger@sopuli.xyz 104 points 3 weeks ago

What a surprise, the company that has been proven to sway the course of elections for profit might well do it again!

[-] Empricorn@feddit.nl 18 points 3 weeks ago

That's not fair. They also did it for control!

[-] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 86 points 3 weeks ago

Don't just sign a petition.

Delete your facebook and instagram.

[-] ohlaph@lemmy.world 35 points 3 weeks ago

I did that 8 or 9 years ago, before it was cool.

[-] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago

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.

[-] QuizzaciousOtter@lemm.ee 8 points 3 weeks ago

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.

[-] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago

Same, doing what I can within my own little slice of the world.

I actually switched to Linux Mint two weeks ago and do 95% of my computing on that OS. (And ANYTHING requiring privacy) I'm a gamer, so I opted for a dual boot, and the only thing I use windows for is playing my games now.

[-] laurelraven@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 3 weeks ago

I did the same a couple months ago, though when I built that system I put in two drives for the dual boot... And never got around to installing Windows. I think I'll use the second drive for something else, don't know what yet.

Have had almost no issues with gaming

[-] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 0 points 3 weeks ago

Glad to hear it!

For me it's been hit or miss. I'm fairly tech savvy and able to work through things with the info on Proton DB, but I've had several games that just simply weren't compatible.

[-] laurelraven@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 3 weeks ago

I've been fortunate enough that the games I want to play so far pretty much Just Work

[-] half@lemy.lol 4 points 3 weeks ago

Amen and I think you're preaching to the choir on that one lol

[-] reagansrottencorpse@lemmy.ml 29 points 3 weeks ago

What a stain on humanity Zuckerberg has been.

[-] ohlaph@lemmy.world 6 points 3 weeks ago

He took advantage of the Myspace potential and has gone almost unchallenged and unchecked. He needs to pay for his crimes.

[-] Psych@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 3 weeks ago

Lol just made a little rant about it . Zuck definetly isn't paying up enough and even EU seems not that strong towards them .

[-] oce@jlai.lu 19 points 3 weeks ago

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.

[-] helenslunch@feddit.nl 13 points 3 weeks ago

Meta:

"Ok everyone has forgotten about this, now let's get that election money!"

[+] djsaskdja@reddthat.com -26 points 3 weeks ago

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.

[-] TheUnicornOfPerfidy@feddit.uk 29 points 3 weeks 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.

[-] TimLovesTech@badatbeing.social 17 points 3 weeks ago

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.

[+] djsaskdja@reddthat.com -20 points 3 weeks ago

They say this every 4 years and nothing really changes.

[-] Zannsolo@lemmy.world 10 points 3 weeks ago

I mean one of the candidates is a convicted felon that worships dictators and has said he will go after political rivals and that he'd be a dictator for a day.

[-] ShittyBeatlesFCPres@lemmy.world 13 points 3 weeks ago

It’s not just America having an election this year. India just had theirs and it’s the biggest election on Earth.

[-] Doomsider@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago

The US population increased by 0.5% in 2023, adding more than 1.6 million people to reach a total of 334,914,895.

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