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Meta's legal battle with Israeli tech firm Bright Data over web scraping on Facebook and Instagram ends in a court ruling in favor of Bright Data. The court found Meta failed to present sufficient evidence of non-public data scraping, and the case also involved allegations of collecting personal information about minors. Meta has a history of suing data scraping businesses and is currently involved in another lawsuit with Voyager Labs.
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