Meta’s new terms may allow free scraping of news sites for AI training

Updated commercial terms taking effect October 30 appear to let Meta crawl publisher websites and use that content to train its AI Meta has rewritten the fine print for businesses on its platforms. According to Nieman Lab, the new language appears to let the company crawl and scrape websites “associated” with those businesses, and that includes online publishers. The updated terms take effect on October 30, 2026. Once they do, Meta says it can use that outside content to “develop, improve, research,” and “train” its AI products.

Source: Crypto Briefing