Browser-based scraping Recently, I had a scraping project that seemed pretty straightforward and I was fully prepared to use traditional scraping to handle it.

BrandTotal and Unimania agreed to an injunction banning them from scraping Facebook and Instagram data going forward or profiting from data they collected.

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

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 has admitted to scraping all public Facebook and Instagram posts made since 2007 in order to train its generative AI model, adding to the privacy contrast with Apple Intelligence.

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.