Meta clarifies website terms in response to publishers' AI scraping claims
( October 19, 2026, 13:15 GMT | Official Statement) -- MLex Summary: Meta Platforms has "clarified" the terms and conditions for crawling publishers websites, in response to concerns voiced over the training of AI services. Meta said content owners can signal their preferences and the terms are "not about scraping news sites, and these updates don't give us new rights that supersede those preferences.”The statement from a Meta spokesperson follows:...
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