The Scoop: Meta shuts down disinformation tool ahead of U.S. election

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With less than three months until the U.S. presidential election, Meta has gone through with its promise to shut down CrowdTangle, a tool for tracking misinformation on the company’s social media.
The tool was popular among journalists, researchers, academics and watchdog groups for allowing them to monitor social media posts and study the spread of deepfakes, misleading posts and outright li