TELL META: Don't Kill Your Crucial Transparency Tool, CrowdTangle!

[Rupert]

I didnt know where to put this. But I was concerned when I read it. do I need to be?  Anyone here used it?

https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/campaigns/crowdtangle-petition/?utm_medium=firefox-desktop&utm_source=newtab&utm_campaign=24-Crowdtangle&utm_content=banner_I2_C1&utm_term=en

https://techcrunch.com/2024/08/15/meta-shut-down-crowdtangle-a-tool-for-tracking-disinformation-heres-how-its-replacement-compares/






As an aside Meta forces me to accept their cookies... I struggled to reject them..:
https://transparency.meta.com/en-gb/researchtools/other-datasets/crowdtangle/

Ether accept all or, Learn More.  Small thing but it seems wrong to me Cleggy.

[ergophobe]

I haven't used it, but it strikes me that an open tool that tracks disinformation will be used as a tool to refine disinformation to make it harder to spot.

We are entering an era where people will be able to tell their AI spambot, "Create a website that looks like the New York Times at nytimesbestof.xyz, add 10,000 articles from the last 10 years and make 500 of them imply that election fraud is common in the US and 500 of them discuss the excellent health and intelligence of Vladimir Putin, then create 5000 profiles seeded from our persona database on each of X, Instagram, Tik Tok that post twice daily and have one out of every 10 to 20 of the posts link back to the articles about election fraud or Putin's health."

And this can be repeated ad infinitum with more topics of disinformation than can possibly be tracked.

I think the future will be whitelisting information, not blacklisting.

[Rupert]

OK, thanks good point. It was staring me in the face, but I did not see it. I guess that's why I asked here not anywhere else, only someone on Th3core would cut to the basics so quickly.

[ergophobe]

Ha ha! As I said, it's a basically uninformed opinion though. Never used it, so I don't really know. That's just a gut reaction.