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Can't they? The internet is full of scrapers and reposters, and I don't think I've ever seen a company like that going down. I'm not sure what the point would be (generate a dataset? perform sentiment analysis on certain topics? streamline their tag detection system with off-platform data?), but they can, as long as they follow the relevant privacy laws ("practically no restrictions" outside of the EEA+UK+California, "anonymise before processing" everywhere else).
They would only violate copyright if they redistribute the content. Downloading and processing the content offline wouldn't really be breaking any laws, outside of a structured PII situation.
You are missing the point entirely: in order to put advertisement next to it, they of course need to copy and redistribute it.
Why do you think they haven't enabled two way federation yet? It is precisely because of the unclear legal situation regarding content sourced through federation.
And as shady as Meta is, they are an established company with a big legal department and not some web scalper operating from a 3rd world country.