The revised terms take effect October 30 and still allow Meta to crawl websites linked to business accounts, including the use of "test credentials" for ads, business products, and security. While Meta stated it never intended to scrape news sites and pointed to its adherence to robots.txt, legal experts warn the updated wording may still enable AI scraping. Businesses cannot currently opt out of this crawling without forfeiting commercial use of Meta's platforms.
Wednesday, October 21, 2026
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Meta Removes AI News Scraping Clause in Revised Commercial Terms
AI3 days ago
The company has purged language from its upcoming business terms that might have permitted the collection of journalistic content to train artificial intelligence. The change follows claims from the News/Media Alliance that the previous policy was "outrageous and probably illegal," prompting a reversal of the proposed conditions.
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