404 Media wrote that unsealed New York Times-led filings quote Microsoft executive Brent Hecht calling scrape-based training a labour theft. The same report said Satya Nadella’s sworn account put the drop in Bing clicks to news sites at more than 90%.
404 Media’s 17 September piece said a summary-judgment filing in the New York Times-led case was unsealed on Thursday. The filing, as quoted there, has Microsoft executive Brent Hecht calling large-model scraping theft on a scale the outlet calls unprecedented. The same quote stack includes a line that this may be labour theft at a historic scale. Those words belong to the filing as the outlet presented it, not to a new Microsoft press line.[1]
404 Media added that Microsoft officers, under oath, described a Bing news-click collapse above 90%. Satya Nadella’s sworn account is the named vehicle for that drop. The outlet does not treat the figure as a public traffic dashboard. It is a litigation number sitting next to the labour quote.[1]
The card rests on 404 Media’s reading of the unsealed stack. However another publisher may yet file the same Hecht and Nadella passages. Until that page exists, there is no second independent write-up of this unsealing. TechCrunch and The Verge were checked for a matching lawsuit story and did not serve one. The factual load here is the quote set and the 90% Bing line as that outlet carried them.[1]
