Facebook’s CrowdTangle Sharpened Its Focus on Local Newsrooms

The social network acquired publishing platform CrowdTangle in November 2016.

CrowdTangle said in a blog post that local newsrooms that join the platform will have access to all existing features, as well as:

• The ability to follow conversations in public Facebook groups.
• The addition of some 20,000 accounts to its public lists, including first responders and universities broken down by U.S.