Meta's new business terms said to allow scraping site content to train AI
What happened
On 16 October 2026, The Verge cited a Nieman Lab report saying Meta's new business terms, effective 30 October, may allow it to scrape and use content from websites "associated" with platform businesses to develop, improve and train AI products, including online publishers' sites. The report argues the terms leave room for Meta to obtain news site content for free to train AI. The matter is still at the pre-effective-date dispute stage, with no word of a response from Meta or changes to the terms.
Written by AI from the reports · updated 2 h ago
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- The Verge · AIMeta’s new terms may allow it to train AI on news sites for free
Meta's new terms appear to give it permission to crawl and scrape websites "associated" with the businesses that use its platforms - including online publishers, according to a report from Nieman Lab.
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