Disinformation Can Kill: Scam Ads, Fraud, and Health Disinformation on Meta Platforms
This report is one of the partial results of the project “Impacts of the Digital Disinformation Industry on the Health of the Brazilian Population”, developed by NetLab UFRJ with support from the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq) . The main objective of the project is to provide inputs for understanding the ecosystem of fraudulent health advertising, in order to inform public debate and guide strategies to confront health disinformation in
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
