Meta Drops Clause That Let It Scrape News Sites for AI Training
The Verge AI · rss · 2026-10-17
Meta has updated its commercial terms again, removing language that suggested it could scrape content from third-party domains, web pages, or URLs to develop, improve, research, and train its AI.
- The removed passage authorized Meta to use content from such domains and pages to provide, develop, improve, research, train, and maintain its products and services.
- Neiman Lab and Cornell digital and information law professor James Grimmelmann were among those who read it as permitting scraping of news sites for training.
- After backlash, the language no longer appears on the commercial terms page.
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