{
  "id": 10605474,
  "title": "Condé Nast, Hearst among 300 media execs to push federal ‘bad bots’ bill on AI scraping",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/29/conde-nast-hearst-among-300-media-execs-to-push-federal-bad-bots-bill",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-09-29T04:01:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Digiday",
    "slug": "digiday",
    "url": "https://digiday.com/media/conde-nast-hearst-among-300-media-execs-to-push-federal-bad-bots-bill-on-ai-scraping/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "A group of over 300 media executives, including representatives from Condé Nast, Hearst Magazines, USA Today Co., and The Seattle Times, are set to travel to Washington D.C. to advocate for federal legislation targeting \"bad bots\" that scrape content for AI training without authorization. The trip, organized by the News/Media Alliance, focuses on the Stealth Bot Prohibition Act, a bill designed to compel AI crawlers to disclose their identity and intent, rather than concealing their activities and bypassing publishers' efforts to prevent scraping. During their Capitol Hill meetings with lawmakers and their staff, these executives will discuss the challenges posed by stealth crawlers, which frequently disregard or bypass publishers' anti-scraping measures and remain unidentifiable, complicating publishers' attempts to identify and block them.",
  "summary": "More than 300 publishing execs are heading to Washington, D.C to push Congress to crack down on AI bots that scrape their content without permission.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}