The European Commission on Friday demanded more information from US social media provider Meta about its discontinued analytics tool CrowdTangle. “The commission seeks information on Meta’s compliance with obligations to give researchers access to data publicly accessible on the online interface of Facebook and Instagram,” the commission said. The commission also seeks detail about Meta’s “plans to update its election and civic discourse monitoring functionalities.” Meta introduced new features in CrowdTangle, specifically public visual real-time dashboards for EU member states for third parti…