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The Machines That Read the Web: Inside the Class-Action Lawsuit Accusing Google, Meta, and Perplexity of Mass Content Theft

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A federal class-action lawsuit filed in the Northern District of California is taking direct aim at three of the most powerful names in artificial intelligence — Google, Meta, and Perplexity AI — accusing them of systematically scraping copyrighted content from thousands of websites to train their large language models without permission, compensation, or even acknowledgment. The complaint, brought by a coalition of website operators and content…
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WebProNews broke the news in on Friday, April 3, 2026.
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