In this case, Meta had brought to the court an example of Bright Data’s web-scraping activities — a massive dataset that included 615 million records of Instagram data that sold for $860,000.

Meta has been using user content on Instagram for AI data scraping. If you haven't known this yet, you need to scroll further on IG the next time you open the app. Once you scroll through your ...

Meta announced it's suing the U.S. subsidiary of a Chinese tech company, accusing it of offering data-scraping services for Facebook and Instagram.

An Instagram marketing partner was discovered scraping profile information from millions of users.

When done right, web scraping is a powerful tool that can give businesses a competitive edge in today’s data-driven world.

“Data scraping can make information for thousands or millions of users instantly accessible, as it’s all stored in the same place. For example, navigating logs in a database is a far quicker solution ...

Social media users voiced worries about a move by Meta to use information from public posts, including on Facebook, to train its chatbot.