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CrowdTangle Audience Development Hub for Fact-Checkers
CrowdTangle Audience Development Hub for Fact-Checkers

This hub provides resources meant for fact-checking and investigative news organizations looking to build out their digital footprint.

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Written by Tess
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Below you’ll find a range of resources that will help you understand:

  1. The basics of using the CrowdTangle tool and data as a fact-checker 🧐

  2. Using loyalty metrics & competitive benchmarking to grow you page 🚀

  3. Video metrics, to grow video on Facebook 🎥

  4. Instagram metrics, to get the most out of posting to IG 💃

🧐 CrowdTangle for Fact-Checkers — How to use CT for investigations

Learn how fact-checkers use CrowdTangle to hunt down misinfo and investigate trends.

Learn how fact-checkers use CrowdTangle to hunt down misinfo and investigate trends. We'll talk through how reporters at VERA Files, Deutsche Presse-Agentur and Agence France-Presse use CrowdTangle in their fact-checking work, and show how you can do the same.


Relevant case studies for fact-checkers:

  • [BuzzFeed] How Buzzfeed's Craig Silverman uses CrowdTangle in Investigations — the 15m Master Class. Watch here.

  • [BuzzFeed] Buzzfeed’s Craig Silverman Explains How He Uses CrowdTangle to Uncover Misinfo. Read here.

  • [Vox.com] Using CrowdTangle for breaking news. Read here.

  • {PolitiFact] Using CrowdTangle to investigate “Pants on Fire” misinformation on the web. Read here.

🚀 Boost your page's performance using CrowdTangle loyalty metrics and competitive benchmarking

We'll talk through specific strategies that will help you develop your audience, and keep people

Specific strategies that will help you develop your audience, and keep people coming back to your page. We'll review a specific case study on how Brut built their audience rapidly over the course of a year using CrowdTangle's Interaction Rate metric. Also learn how to build out your dashboard to track other pages to understand what is making them tick.


Relevant case studies for page growth:

  • [Brut] Leaning into CrowdTangle’s Interaction Rate metric led to phenomenal growth. Read here.

  • [The Quint] Identifying which types of content are overperforming and by creating more stories around those themes. Read here.

🎥 How to Launch a Video Strategy Using CrowdTangle

How to use CT video metrics when launching a Facebook or Instagram video strategy.

Tips and tricks galore — we'll walk you through the key CT video metrics, and how to use them when launching a Facebook or Instagram video strategy.

Relevant case studies for video:

  • [Brut] Using CrowdTangle to identify top video formats and reach 25 million people during a major news event. Read here.

  • [NBC News] How we ended up with a 2 million-view Facebook video using CrowdTangle. Read here.

💃 CrowdTangle for Instagram: Using CT to Make Your IG Pop

We'll give you a crash course on using CrowdTangle to understand what works when it comes to posting on IG.

Want to do more with Instagram? We'll give you a crash course on using CrowdTangle to understand what works when it comes to posting on IG.

Relevant case studies for Instagram;

  • [Observador] Increasing younger audience engagement during elections using CrowdTangle for Instagram. Read here.

  • [Cosmopolitan.com] How “Instagram sleuthing” fitness trends leads to traffic wins for Cosmopolitan. Read here.

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