Meta Delays New Terms to Nov. 20 as Publishers Challenge AI Scraping Language
Updated
Updated · The Verge · Oct 23
Meta Delays New Terms to Nov. 20 as Publishers Challenge AI Scraping Language
2 articles · Updated · The Verge · Oct 23
Summary
November 20 is Meta’s new deadline for enforcing business terms that had been set to take effect on October 30, after publishers objected that the rules could let the company scrape news sites for AI training.
Meta said the delay will give it more time to explain what is changing, including how its web crawlers work and that site owners can still use robots.txt to signal crawling preferences.
Language in the terms appeared to grant broad scraping rights; although Meta removed wording about “training” its products, legal experts said that revision still did not clearly rule out AI-training use.
The News/Media Alliance urged CEO Mark Zuckerberg to revise the terms, while publishers and digital advertisers in the EU and UK also pressed regulators to block the rollout over potential harm to publishers.