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News/Media Alliance Pressures Meta Over AI Crawling Practices, Sets Oct. 26 Deadline

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The News/Media Alliance, representing 2,000+ US publishers, challenged Meta's AI crawling terms and set an Oct. 26 deadline for clarification, calling the revised clause anticompetitive.

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The News/Media Alliance, a trade group representing more than 2,000 US publishers, issued a deadline for Meta to clarify its revised crawl clause by October 26, citing anticompetitive concerns and stating that members have not consented to the terms. The dispute centers on how Meta's AI systems access and use publisher content, an issue with implications for content sourcing and publisher relationships in the broader digital publishing ecosystem.

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