Alongside 16 other members of Congress, U.S. Rep. Anna Eshoo, D-Palo Alto, raised concerns about social media giant Meta’s plans to cut CrowdTangle, a service used to monitor trends on Facebook and Instagram.

The service, the congressmembers said in a letter to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, has been crucial for researchers and journalists seeking to expose and understand such phenomena as Russian influence in Africa and the COVID-19 pandemic’s impact on mental health.

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Cameron Fozi is a data journalism intern at Bay City News through the Dow Jones News Fund. He is a recent graduate of UC Berkeley, where he reported and edited for the city and campus newspaper, the Daily Californian. In summer 2023, he interned for his hometown newspaper, the San Diego Union-Tribune.