Meta Platforms to integrate Reuters news content into AI chatbot

Meta Platforms announced Friday that its AI chatbot will now integrate Reuters content to deliver real-time responses on news and current events—marking the latest collaboration between a major tech firm and a news publisher.

Neither Meta nor Reuters’ parent company, Thomson Reuters, disclosed the financial details of this agreement, which is Meta’s first news deal in years.

This partnership comes as Meta scales back on news content on its platforms following regulatory criticism and disagreements over revenue-sharing with publishers.

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The Meta AI chatbot, available on Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram, will be able to answer news-related questions with summaries and links to Reuters content. Meta has not indicated if Reuters content will be used to train its large-language model.

“Reuters has partnered with tech providers to license our trusted, fact-based news content to power their AI platforms,” said a Reuters spokesperson, adding that the terms of the deal are confidential. According to Axios, Reuters will receive compensation under a multi-year agreement.

Meta’s partnership with Reuters builds on an existing fact-checking collaboration that began in 2020. Other tech firms, like OpenAI and Perplexity, recently partnered with news organisations to integrate reliable news sources into their AI platforms.