📅 Oct 23, 2026
New commercial terms let Meta scrape the sites of any business using Facebook, Instagram or WhatsApp — and use what it finds for its products, including AI.
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Businesses authorize Meta's bots, spiders and crawlers to scan any domains or URLs tied to their products — and to pull fresh copies periodically.
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The only way to refuse the terms is to stop using Meta's business products entirely. Consent comes from continued use.
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After publisher backlash, Meta removed 'train' — but legal experts say 'develop' still covers AI training and the crawling rights stay broad.
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The News/Media Alliance called the terms 'outrageous and probably illegal.' Meta says robots.txt flags can limit access — but wrote no guarantee into the terms.
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