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AdLegal asks COMESA regulator for interim measures against Meta over AI training use of publisher content

9 nov. 2026 · Collecté automatiquement à partir de sources publiques. Non vérifié par une personne.

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What happened

On 9 November 2026, Kenyan legal advocacy group AdLegal filed an urgent Application for Interim Measures with the COMESA Competition and Consumer Commission (CCCC), asking the regional regulator to intervene against Meta over the alleged unauthorised collection, reproduction and commercial exploitation of digital publishers' content to train artificial intelligence models. The filing targets Meta's proposed Commercial Terms and its ongoing data-gathering practices across the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA), which has 21 member states.

What the petition asks for

Prepared with technical and competition-law assistance from the UK-based Movement for an Open Web (MOW), led by antitrust specialist Tim Cowen, the filing urges the Commission to issue binding interim orders against Meta while a comprehensive antitrust investigation takes place. AdLegal argues that emergency relief is needed to prevent lasting damage to media ecosystems in the region, and that Meta's pause of the contested Commercial Terms should not be taken at face value because automated web scraping is already occurring.

The publishers' argument

AdLegal contends that Meta is harvesting copyrighted journalistic and digital work without authorisation, fair compensation or opt-out controls, and using it to build AI systems that compete with the original creators. The application points to the erosion of publishers' intellectual property rights, loss of web traffic and advertising revenue as AI-generated answers keep users inside platform ecosystems, and the threat to independent journalism and media viability across Africa.

Context

This is a regulatory petition, not a court ruling: no decision by the COMESA Commission and no response from Meta is reported in the source. It is the latest in a series of publisher challenges to the same Meta Commercial Terms, which have already drawn a UK Competition and Markets Authority investigation, a Sao Paulo court order barring Meta from using Brazilian press content for AI training, and a letter from the Australian Writers' Guild; those developments are covered in separate items.

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