Meta removes language from its terms that could be interpreted as permitting news websites to scrape content for training AI models.

Following controversy, Meta has updated its commercial terms to remove language that experts interpreted as permitting the scraping of news content for AI training and overriding robots.txt restrictions. Cornell law professor James Grimmelmann and others previously interpreted these terms in that way. In response, Meta spokesperson Daniel Roberts stated the provisions apply only to advertising and commercial products, and Meta's use of web crawlers remains unchanged. The update will not grant Meta new rights to override content creators' preferences.