Transparency under threat: progress and setbacks between CrowdTangle and the Meta Content Library
In August 2024, Meta—the company responsible for platforms such as Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Threads, and Messenger—discontinued CrowdTangle , a central tool for accessing data from its platforms and for journalistic and scientific investigations into the social impacts and risks associated with their use . The replacement with the Meta Content Library (MCL) , made available at the end of the previous year, represented a structural change in the company's platform data
Greenwashing in the Energy Transition: How LinkedIn Ads Distort the Climate Debate and Legitimize Unsustainable Practices
The report "Greenwashing in the Energy Transition: How LinkedIn Ads Distort the Climate Debate and Legitimize Unsustainable Practices" is a groundbreaking study on the presence of socio-environmental misinformation in digital advertising campaigns on LinkedIn. The study analyzes 2,800 ads from 917 companies , published between 2023 and 2025, and shows how national and international corporations have been using sustainability rhetoric to reinforce a "green" image without pro
