Meta to crawl business clients' sites for AI training from October 30

Meta's updated Commercial Terms, effective October 30, 2026, authorize the company to crawl websites associated with any business account using its ads, Pages, catalogs or WhatsApp Business and use the content to train its products, including AI. There is no opt-out short of stopping all business use, and robots.txt does not override the contract.

• The clause takes effect October 30, 2026 and covers sites tied to a business account
• The word "train" appears only in the paragraph about crawling websites
• Opting out requires ending all business use of Meta products
• Blocking meta-externalagent in robots.txt does not override the license