{
  "id": 763029,
  "title": "AI crawlers from Meta and Alibaba almost destroyed a volunteer-run LGBT history archive",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/13/ai-crawlers-from-meta-and-alibaba-almost-destroyed-a-volunteer-run",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-08-13T10:11:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Fast Company",
    "slug": "fast-company",
    "url": "https://www.fastcompany.com/91589354/ai-crawlers-hammered-a-volunteer-run-lgbt-history-archive-2"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Jonathan Harborne founded his LGBT history encyclopedia 15 years ago to document some of the struggles his peers had encountered in their lives. He worried that even as changing social values made life better for LGBTQ+ people, the struggles past generations had endured for recognition and respect could be wiped from memory, along with the pain caused by the AIDS pandemic. The site, the LGBT…",
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  "coverage": {
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  "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."
}