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Starting October 30, business accounts will consent to Meta scraping their websites if they continue using Facebook, Instagram, or WhatsApp (www.niemanlab.org)
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[โ€“] bedwyr@piefed.ca 2 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Others have told me on multiple threads, people with credibility as far as I was concerned, that we already know they do, and there is no way to stop it due to the nature of federated social media. Although all the corporate social media can't seem to stop the crawlers either.

[โ€“] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 3 points 10 hours ago

Corporate social media can try to put a stop to it; federated social media provides an effortless protocol to scrape everything, including even who voted how on what