Preach Before Teach: Meta Allegedly Involved In Data Scraping, A Practice it Sued Others For

Meta Platforms, Inc's META lawsuit with Israel-based data collection company Bright Data for data harvesting and selling divulged that the social media giant itself for years paid a contractor to scrape data from other websites.
Email correspondence between the two businesses confirmed that Meta had a years-long professional relationship with the data-scraping outfit, Bloomberg reports.
Bright Data offers various services, including scraping profile information from social media platforms and e-commerce sites.
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Since 2021, Meta has cracked down on scraping-for-hire services prosecuting companies, including Bright Data.
Meta spokesman Andy Stone confirmed that Meta had paid Bright Data to gather data from e-commerce sites to build brand profiles on Meta platforms and find "harmful websites" and "phishing operations.
Meta ended the relationship with Bright Data after learning about its data violations.
In November, the EU penalized Meta €265 million ($277 million) for failing to protect user data from third-party data scraping.
Price Action: META shares are trading higher by 20% at $183.68 premarket on the last check Thursday.

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