"Meta has cut several deals with news publishers to help provide real-time data for its AI chatbot services, . The commercial agreements will allow its Meta AI chatbots to better answer user queries about news and current events. These are multiyear deals where publishers will be compensated for the use of their content, but we don't have any monetary specifics. The contracts do stipulate that Meta's chatbots will link out to articles when answering news queries, potentially offering a slight traffic boost to publishers."
"The news partners include USA Today, People, Le Monde and CNN. However, there are also a whole lot of conservative outlets included in today's announcement, such as Fox News, The Daily Caller and Washington Examiner. It's a good thing Meta's AI will provide the aforementioned links, just in case a chatbot says something crazy about whatever nonsense culture war topic is going on that day."
"Meta has announced that this is just a first step and that it will be adding more news partners to cover more topics in the future. This is an interesting move because Meta has long-been averse to paying news companies for access to content. It stopped paying US publishers for access to news in 2022 and the Facebook news tab went away entirely last year."
Meta signed multiyear commercial agreements with multiple news publishers to provide real-time data to its AI chatbots and compensate publishers for content use. The contracts require chatbots to link to original sources when answering news queries, which may drive additional traffic. Named partners include USA Today, People, Le Monde, CNN, Fox News, The Daily Caller and Washington Examiner, among others. Meta plans to add more news partners over time to broaden topic coverage. The move reverses a prior stance that stopped paying US publishers in 2022 and follows removal of the Facebook news tab last year.
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