Meta indefinitely delays commercial terms update over AI-training scraping backlash
Ars Technica AI · rss · 2026-11-07
After weeks of backlash, Meta has indefinitely delayed a commercial terms update that would have required Meta Business account holders to allow extensive AI training on external websites linked on Facebook. A spokesperson told Reuters the changes are paused while Meta engages stakeholders, with existing terms remaining in effect. Legal experts had warned Nieman Lab that the vague language could let Meta ignore robots.txt preferences and crawl off-Facebook content at scale — potentially saving millions in licensing fees, since virtually every news publisher maintains a Facebook page.
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