Regulation2026-10-17

Meta updated its commercial terms to allow using content from business account domains for AI training. Legal experts said this could permit scraping of publisher sites. Meta stated the change did not alter its web crawling practices. Meta has now removed the provision. Meta clarified the terms only applied to ads and business products. Meta said its web crawler use remains unchanged.

What changed

Meta's terms allowed it to use any content from business account domains for AI training and product development.

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