Helping protect journalists and local news from AI crawlers with Project Galileo
Sep 23, 2025Patrick Day, Jocelyn Woolbright
Summary
Project Galileo now includes free access to Cloudflare's Bot Management and AI Crawl Control services for its participants, which include journalists, independent news organizations, and other non-profits supporting news-gathering. This provides tools to monitor and control AI crawler access to websites, helping news organizations protect their content and negotiate fair compensation.
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