Meta Withdraws Lawsuit Against Bright Data Following Court Ruling in Favor of Web Scraper

Meta has withdrawn the lawsuit it filed against Israeli web scraping company Bright Data after a significant setback in the case. It is striking that Meta herself had websites scraped by Bright Data for years.Meta himself was once customer at Bright Data but when the company scraped Meta's own data the tech giant sued the web scraping company.

 According to Meta Bright Data allegedly collected non-public data from Meta. The tech giant said among other things that the company had a huge dataset with 615 million records of Instagram data. This data allegedly sold for $860000 and included usernames IDs countries post counts hashtags followers and profile images.

A few weeks ago the court ruled in favor of Bright Data saying Meta had not provided sufficient evidence that the company had scraped non-public information. Due to this setback the tech giant has decided to drop the lawsuit reports TechCrunch. Bright Data says that the companies have not reached a settlement and that the company is making no changes in its behavior.