View: Inside Facebook’s data wars SECTIONS Last Updated: Jul 15, 2021, 11:06 AM IST Share Synopsis With only about 25,000 users, CrowdTangle is one of Facebook’s smallest products, but it has become a valuable resource for power users including global health organizations, election officials and digital marketers, and it has made Facebook look transparent compared with rival platforms like YouTube and TikTok, which don’t release nearly as much data. Reuters CrowdTangle story is important because it illustrates the way that Facebook’s obsession with managing its reputation often gets in the way of its attempts to clean up its platform. One day in April, the people behind CrowdTangle, a data analytics tool owned by Facebook, learned that transparency had limits.