Meta removes terms language that may have allowed scraping news sites for AI

Meta has removed language from its commercial terms that experts said could let it scrape content from sites, including news outlets, to train its AI. Meta's Andy Stone and spokesperson Daniel Roberts said crawler behavior is unchanged and robots.txt preferences still apply.

• The clause letting Meta use content from domains and URLs to train AI was removed
• Meta says crawler rules are unchanged and robots.txt still applies
• Neiman Lab and law professor James Grimmelmann criticized the original wording
• Meta says the clause only covered its ads and business products