December 08, 2022
A California federal court on Thursday handed Meta a default victory in its suit accusing a Hong Kong social media data company of using bots to illicitly scrape account profiles from websites, including from Instagram, awarding Meta $365,000 in attorney fees after the Hong Kong company failed to fight the case.
December 20, 2021
Meta on Monday accused a Hong Kong social media data company of using bots to illicitly scrape account profiles from various websites, including those from more than 90 million Instagram users, before selling that data, according to a suit filed in California federal court.