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Source: https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2022\/3\/11\/22972002\/russia-ukraine-meta-facebook-youtube-tiktok-data-crowdtangle-ceo-interview<\/a>
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Brandon Silverman knows more about how stories spread on Facebook than almost anyone. As co-founder and CEO of CrowdTangle, he helped to build systems that instantly understood which stories were going viral: valuable knowledge for publishers at a time when Facebook and other social networks accounted for a huge portion of their traffic. It was so valuable, in fact, that in 2016 Facebook bought the company<\/a>, saying it would help the institutions of journalism identify stories of interest to help their own coverage plans.<\/p>\n

But a funny thing happened along the way to CrowdTangle becoming just another tool in a publisher\u2019s analytics toolkit. Facebook\u2019s value to publishers declined after the company decided to de-emphasize news posts in 2018<\/a>, making CrowdTangle\u2019s original function less vital. But at the same time, in the wake of the 2016 US presidential election, Facebook itself was of massive interest to researchers, lawmakers, and journalists seeking to understand the platform. CrowdTangle offered a unique, real-time window into what was spreading on the site, and observers have relied upon it ever since.<\/p>\n

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