Executives from Condé Nast (Wired), Hearst (San Francisco Chronicle), Gannett (USA Today), and The Seattle Times are pushing Congress to restrict automated web crawling under the Stealth Bot Prohibition Act. While publishers claim the bill spares journalism, it creates a glaring contradiction: modern reporters rely on custom scraping to uncover stories, and newsrooms increasingly depend on AI tools fed by web data. Our new infographic below exposes the hypocrisy behind this lobbying push.
Find more resources on reasons to oppose the Stealth Bot Prohibition Act from our statement and blog.