Facebook Is Dismantling CrowdTangle Team Because It Showed the Platform to Be a Right-Wing Echo Chamber CrowdTangle, the analytics tool for social media posts that Facebook acquired five years ago, may not be long for this world, and its mostly independent team within Facebook is now being broken up. The reason: Facebook says that the tool is simply being integrated into its other integrity and transparency efforts, but employees both former and current say it's because CrowdTangle is making Facebook look bad. The New York Times' Kevin Roose, who was arguably instrumental in putting CrowdTangle data to use in one of the most prominent ways that made Facebook execs uncomfortable, writes today that the story about CrowdTangle's rise and fall within the company "illustrates the way that Facebook’s obsession with managing its reputation often gets in the way of its attempts to clean up its platform."