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Meta's new commercial terms let it crawl sites tied to business accounts from Oct. 30

Meta's preview commercial terms, effective Oct. 30, let it use crawlers and scrapers on domains and pages tied to a business account. TechCrunch, citing The Verge, reports the clause allowing use of that content to "train" Meta products has been removed. Meta says the crawling terms "only applied to our ads and business products" and do not change how it uses web crawlers.

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Saturday, October 17, 2026

11:04
The Verge
Meta removes language that may have allowed it to scrape news sites
12:10
Facebook
facebook.com/legal/commercial_terms_preview
12:10
Unite.AI
unite.ai/meta-rewrites-web-crawling-clause-in-pending-commercial-terms/
12:10
The Register
theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/10/16/meta-grants-itself-right-to-scrape-content-from-business-customers-for-model-training/5303658
12:10
East Bay Times
eastbaytimes.com/2026/10/16/meta-updates-data-scraping-policy-following-criticism/
12:10
News/Media Alliance
newsmediaalliance.org/changes-to-meta-commercial-terms-of-use/
12:10
Gizmodo
gizmodo.com/meta-to-literally-every-business-user-nice-website-you-got-there-2000827266
12:10
Search Engine Journal
searchenginejournal.com/metas-new-terms-expand-crawling-rights-beyond-advertisers/593217/
12:10
SiliconValley.com
siliconvalley.com/2026/10/16/meta-updates-business-terms-sparking-ai-training-fears-among-news-outlets/
12:10
PCMag
pcmag.com/news/meta-sparks-alarm-about-it-scraping-websites-for-potential-ai-training
17:10
Crypto Briefing
cryptobriefing.com/meta-removes-ai-scraping-language-terms/
17:31
TechCrunch
Meta removes language that raised scraping and AI training concerns

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