Announcement: Meta Ceases Operations of CrowdTangle, Leveraging Meta Content Library as Alternative Content Analysis Tool in Social Media Landscape

Meta announced the closure of CrowdTangle, an analytical tool for content on social platforms like Facebook and Instagram. The service, utilized by research institutions, journalists, and fact-checking organizations, will be discontinued starting on August 14, 2024.

Meta has advised organizations using CrowdTangle to transition to Meta Content Library, which grants access to content analysis tools limited to educational and non-profit entities seeking no profit.

In 2016, Facebook acquired CrowdTangle as a tool to monitor the sources of news content distributed across social media platforms.

Source: Meta and The Wall Street Journal

TLDR: Meta is shutting down CrowdTangle, a social content analysis tool, prompting users to switch to the Meta Content Library, focused on educational and non-profit use only.