Meta removes controversial scraping language from its commercial terms

After pushback from publishers and industry groups, Meta narrowed terms that appeared to let it scrape news sites for AI training Meta has rewritten its commercial terms again. The change removes language that appeared to let the company scrape content from outside websites, including news sites, and use it to train its AI. The rollback followed sharp backlash from publishers and legal observers. For a company that has signed paid AI licensing deals with media outlets, the original wording looked a lot like a way to skip the paywall entirely. The deleted passage was broad. It covered content from domains, web pages, or URLs connected to Meta’s commercial services, and it listed a long set of permitted uses. That clause no longer appears on the commercial terms page.

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