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Mark Zuckerberg's letter to Jim Jordan gave Republicans just enough to claim a political win, without getting Meta in more trouble amid its FTC antitrust suit
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Q&A with ex-CEO of CrowdTangle Brandon Silverman about the founding principle of the research tool, Meta's decision to close it in an election year, and more
Meta announced this month that in August it will be closing CrowdTangle, the platform monitoring tool the company bought in 2016.
Source: in February, Meta started an official internal process to shut down CrowdTangle, but paused the plan as the EU's Digital Services Act gained traction
and fund it for a year or two — to ensure that this vital tool is here for the next series of elections. https://twitter.com/... Davey Alba / @daveyalba : NEW from me: CrowdTangle has been in limbo fo...
At Wednesday's Senate hearing, CrowdTangle's Brandon Silverman and other researchers explained why the US needs laws requiring Big Tech companies to share data
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Interview with CrowdTangle co-founder Brandon Silverman on social networks' responsibility to open up, including by doing and sharing their own research
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After leaving Meta, Brandon Silverman, co-founder of Facebook-acquired CrowdTangle, has helped craft a bipartisan bill to boost social networks' transparency
The co-founder of CrowdTangle has been working with Congress on legislation to make tech companies disclose their inner workings. Tweets: @benyt , @lauraedelson2 , @apmckay , @elipariser , @aaschapiro...
Brandon Silverman, the founder and CEO of the Facebook-owned analytics tool CrowdTangle, is leaving the company; team members were reassigned several months ago
Alex Heath / The Verge :