B
Evidence Grade B
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300
300 -- publisher count for news publishers backing bot scraping bill (2026)
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Value
300
Unit
Count
Data Vintage
2026
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Evidence Quality
B
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Score breakdown
Extraction
75
Source Trust
60
Citation Chain
20
Independence
30
Methodology
45
Freshness
95
Source
Mashable
Primary
Tier B
https://mashable.com/tech/publishers-back-ai-bot-scraping-bill ↗
Source Article
Condé Nast, Hearst among 300 publishers pressuring Congress to ban bot scraping
A cohort of news publishers are backing a recently introduced bill intent on stopping stealth bots scraping their content without paying content licensing fees.
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Mashable
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news publishers backing bot scraping bill: 300 publisher count. Source: Mashable (2026). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/publishers-backing-bot-scraping-bill
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