Meta’s updated commercial terms, effective October 30, permit the use of web scrapers to collect content from websites associated with business accounts—including news publishers. Legal experts warn this could allow Meta to scrape news content for AI training without compensation. The terms cover pages, groups, ads, and business dashboards, and explicitly authorize crawling, indexing, and using content to train Meta products.
Critics call it a “remarkable provision” buried in fine print, potentially worth millions in licensing fees. Meta claims the language merely consolidates existing policies and that publishers can still use robots.txt to limit access. However, there is no opt-out option, forcing publishers to either accept the terms or stop using business accounts.
Experts urge publishers to assume the terms are enforceable.
Fuente: Hacker News · Resumido por HeadlinesBriefing