Facebook owner Meta has been accused of ‘digital piracy’ over plans to ‘steal’ British publishers’ content to improve its AI models.
Amid a growing clamour for the UK competition watchdog to intervene, the Silicon Valley giant was warned its sweeping changes could help kill off ‘trusted journalism’ and replace it with a ‘cesspit’ of online misinformation.
It is feared the global tech behemoth’s new proposed terms and conditions for using its platforms, such as Facebook and Instagram, give it new rights to ‘scrape’ all content from any UK publisher which uses them.
This would include content published elsewhere on non-Meta platforms, such as a
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