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

  • Meta Platforms, Inc's (NASDAQ: 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.

  • Read: Meta Platforms Q4 Earnings: Shares Soar On Revenue Beat, Updated Guidance; Here's What Mark Zuckerberg Says

  • 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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