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The Verge · October 16, 2026 · On the brief until October 30, 2026

Meta’s new terms may allow it to train AI on news sites for free

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Training models on scraped publisher content

Meta updated its commercial terms to crawl and scrape content from websites tied to business accounts to train its AI models. Legal experts warn this language could let the company bypass licensing deals and override blocking instructions like robots.txt files. Online publishers that rely on Meta platforms may now have to accept nonconsensual data scraping or leave the networks entirely.

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Examine whether commercial platform terms of service can legally supersede technical blocking signals like robots.txt to capture training data.

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