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

The company had also settled in 2020 with the scraping service Massroot8 and in 2022, it sued a clone site operator and a company called Octopus, a U.S. subsidiary of a Chinese national high-tech ...

What Web Scraping Is And Why It's Important In a nutshell, web scraping is an automated method of extracting data from websites. Specialized software scans webpages, retrieves the relevant ...

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.

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