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Meta Pauses New Users From Accessing CrowdTangle Tool

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Sylvia Varnham O'Regan
· · Source: The Information

Meta Platforms has paused letting new organizations sign up for CrowdTangle, a free tool that allows publishers, marketers and other groups to track popular posts on Facebook and Instagram, according to two people familiar with the matter and confirmed by the company. The data analytics service has been at the center of an internal debate among Meta executives about how much information the...

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