CrowdTangle closure and what it means for researchers with Axel Bruns (#5)

In this episode of Read Them Sideways, your host Dr Sebastian Svegaard chats with Professor Axel Bruns, the leader of the Digital Publics research group at the Digital Media Research Centre. Recently, Meta shut down the online research tool, CrowdTangle. In this episode, Axel discusses the closure, what is next from Meta, and what the consequences might be for Australian researchers. Read Them Sideways is a new podcast series from the Digital Media Research Centre, bringing our researchers to the spotlight to discuss issues that relate to communications, digital media, internet studies, and much more.You can read the article Sebastian referenced here:Meta just closed a vital online research tool. It’s bad news for the fight against misinformation