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Meta removes language that raised scraping and AI training concerns
Publisher description: A Meta spokesperson insisted that the updated terms did not reflect a change in the way Meta crawls the web.
TechCrunch | Oct 17, 2026 | Anthony Ha
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Meta recently updated its commercial terms of use, declaring that the company can “use any content from [a business account’s] domains, web pages, or URLs to provide, develop, improve, research, train, and maintain the integrity of” Meta products and services. According to legal experts interviewed by Nieman Lab, this looked like a “remarkable provision” that could give Meta permission to scrape the website of any publisher with a Meta business account and use the content to train the company’s AI models.
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