OUT: WAR ON SCIENCE. IN: WAR ON DATA. Facebook axes team over far-right data. “Facebook has disbanded one of its teams after the data they produced suggested that far-right commentators outperformed all other users. Facebook executives, including Sir Nick Clegg, the former deputy prime minister, became concerned that the CrowdTangle tool was being used by journalists to produce embarrassing evidence that right-wing content was read more than anything else on the platform. The analytics tool is owned by Facebook but is available to the public. It is one of the only ways for users to measure how well a post is doing in terms of being shared, commented on, liked or receiving a reaction emoji.”