"Meta's new commercial terms of use are outrageous and probably illegal."
Meta may use sweeping new commercial TOS to avoid millions in AI licensing fees
Meta “streamlined” its commercial TOS. Legal experts warn it’s an AI power grab.
Meta’s new commercial terms will allow the scraping of news sites, legal experts say
Starting October 30, business accounts will consent to Meta scraping their websites if they continue using Facebook, Instagram, or WhatsApp.
Meta’s new commercial terms will allow the scraping of news sites, legal experts say
Starting October 30, business accounts will consent to Meta scraping their websites if they continue using Facebook, Instagram, or WhatsApp.
NMA Condemns Arrogant Meta’s ‘Shameless Landgrab Attempt’ To Plunder News Publisher Websites - News Media Association
Responding to a Nieman Lab report that Meta’s new commercial terms will allow the scraping of news sites if publishers continue to use Facebook, Instagram, or WhatsApp, News Media Association Chief Executive Theo Bamber said: “This shameless landgrab attempt from Meta to scrape anything and everything from news publisher and business websites to train their […]
European Commission should be extremely concerned about Meta’s dilemma for European Publishers: Hand Over Journalism for AI Scraping or Lose Access to Key Platforms
The European Publishers Council (EPC) is highly concerned about an update to Meta’s new commercial terms that will allow the tech giant to scrape content from news sites and use that content to train the company’s AI products. The update comes into effect on 30th October and will impact any company with a Meta account. EPC Executive Director Angela Mills Wade said: “Meta appears to be using its commercial terms to claim sweeping permission to scrape publishers’ websites and use their journalism
Meta’s AI could still scrape news sites, legal experts say
Meta’s new terms go into effect on October 30th.
Legal experts warn Meta’s new terms still grant broad scraping permissions, despite language changes
Allowing scraped content to be used for all "advertising and business products" is a substantial expansion of Meta's permissions.
Meta Doesn’t Want to Be a Social Media Company Anymore
Despite an $18 billion settlement to end a nationwide child endangerment lawsuit, the firm clearly no longer sees social media as its main product—or its future.
Meta’s Legal Troubles Are Worse than You Think
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The term metamedia, coined by Alan Kay and Adele Goldberg, refers to new relationships between form and content in the development of new technologies and new media.[1]
Meta failed to protect social media users from scam ads, lawsuit alleges
The Consumer Federation of America accused Meta of allowing scam advertisements to "proliferate on its platforms."
Meta is earning a fortune on a deluge of fraudulent ads, documents show
Meta projected 10% of its 2024 revenue would come from ads for scams and banned goods.
Meta Just Paid Nearly $17 Billion To Make Sure It Gets To Write The Kid Safety Rules For Every Other Social Media Platform
By now you’ve almost certainly heard the news that Meta has settled with 52 state and local Attorneys General who had sued the company in some form or another over child safety on Meta’…
Meta seeks to scrape news content for AI training without permission | Angela Mills Wade posted on the topic | LinkedIn
Meta’s message to publishers: let us scrape your journalism for AI, or stop using our platforms. In the very week that News Media Coalition launched their Primary Source Journalism Framework we get another extraordinary example of how dominant digital platforms are attempting to turn their market power into permission to appropriate the content of others. For free. As reported by Nieman Journalism Lab, Meta’s new commercial terms, effective 30 October, purport to authorise the company to scrape websites associated with business accounts, including news publishers, and use that content to train its products. No negotiated licence. No meaningful choice. Just acceptance by continued use of Meta’s services. And the implications go further. The terms even contemplate creating test credentials to access websites, raising serious questions about publishers’ ability to control access to their own content. Meta argues that publishers can still use robots.txt to restrict crawling but this is no safeguard to protect primary source journalism as such sweeping ‘contractual’ permissions could undermine publishers rights reservations. This is becoming a familiar pattern. Google effectively ties visibility in Search to the use of publishers’ content in its AI services. Now Meta appears to be seeking similarly expansive rights through its commercial terms. This is not consent freely given. It is an attempt to leverage platform dependency to extract valuable intellectual property without negotiation or remuneration. European copyright law gives publishers rights over their content, including the right to reserve it from text and data mining. Those rights must not be circumvented through take-it-or-leave-it contractual conditions imposed by powerful gatekeepers. The European Commission and competition authorities should scrutinise these terms urgently, including their implications for copyright, contractual fairness and abuse of market power. Publishers must retain the right to decide whether, how and on what terms their journalism is used by AI companies. Opt-in, not opt-out. Licensing, not appropriation. Henna Virkkunen Teresa Ribera #Copyright #AI #PrimarySourceJournalism #MediaPluralism #Competition #Publishers #BadBots | 23 comments on LinkedIn
Scoop: Meta removes ads for social media addiction litigation
This comes just two weeks after Meta and YouTube were found negligent in a landmark case about social media addiction.
Meta Faces Lawsuit Over Gambling Scam Ads on Facebook, Instagram - iGamingToday.com - News, insights and Slots review
The Consumer Federation of America has taken Meta to court, accusing the company of misleading users about how it tackles fraudulent advertising on Facebook and Instagram. Filed in Washington, DC, the lawsuit claims Meta’s handling of scam ads, including scam gambling sites, violates local consumer protection laws. Unlike scams that rely on direct contact with […]
