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So as the NYTimes is blocked from AI scraping, Meta will now be getting news from Newsmax. What could possibly go wrong?

Bill Grueskin@bgrueskin.bsky.social

AYFKM “Meta will be able to draw upon Newsmax's significant current reporting as well as archived content to support AI queries across Meta's apps and devices.” ir.newsmax.com/news/news-de...

29/7/26, 4:04 am185 reposts723 likes

Jim Teeth

@drjamesjteeth.bsky.social

29 July

The degree it matters is the degree to which they were weighting Newsmax in the algorithm. They most assuredly were already scraping it.

Photoonist

@photoonist.bsky.social

29 July

If only there were truth-in-advertising laws

DavidNelsonNM

@davidnelsonnm.bsky.social

29 July

Seldom has “garbage in garbage out” been so totally on point.

Don from RealSurf

@mrrealsurf.bsky.social

29 July

What percentage of Newsmax content is AI generated?

pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky”

@pixelatedboat.bsky.social

29 July

It’s a natural fit for a company whose primary business is making boomers insane

Gerard

@groverxv.bsky.social

29 July

And to give it credit, it has MASSIVELY overachieved on that primary business.

One Eyed Jack

@one-eyed-jack.bsky.social

29 July

Zuck is not as reprehensible a person as Musk but it’s not due to lack of effort.

MarvinTandroid

@marvintandroid.bsky.social

29 July

Drink the poison.

Snarky Panda

@snarkypanda.bsky.social

29 July

i'm sure my dad will tell me

Frank Bajak

@fbajak.bsky.social

29 July

The problem with the blocking of AI scraping by legit news orgs isn’t the impact on LLMs. Fuck them. It’s how it impoverishes the Internet Archive and other digital repositories that preserve common knowledge. Is the NYT cool with participating in the erasure of public record?