Meta's new scraping terms galvanize publishers into collective action
Multiple publisher trade bodies have published letters to Meta pushing back on its terms, and urged lawmakers to take action.
Key points
- • The News/Media Alliance, the trade body that represents over 2,000 publishers, sent Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg a letter on Thursday demanding the company withdraw its revised terms before they go into effect.
- • On Thursday, a number of publisher trade bodies around the world published letters to Meta pushing back on its terms, and urged lawmakers to take action.
- • If Meta can scrape publishers’ sites without paying them under these new terms, then it puts into question the existing licensing agreements the platform has with publishers, a senior publishing industry representative told Digiday.
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