Meta removed a phrase from its terms regarding the use of content from sites

Meta recently modified its commercial terms of use regarding the ingestion of data from business domains and external URLs for AI training purposes.

Following feedback and legal scrutiny regarding the potential scraping of third-party content, Meta removed the disputed language from its terms.

The company maintains that its crawling policies for business and advertising products remain unchanged, despite the initial broader framing of the update.

The changes to the terms had been the focus of attention, with lawyers pointing out that the wording left room for the collection of content from news sites that have a business account on the platform. The development comes at a time when legal battles between publishers and technology companies over the use of intellectual property are ongoing, with Meta having won a similar lawsuit in June 2025.

Following the backlash, the company removed the reference. A Meta spokesperson clarified that the terms applied exclusively to advertising products and professional services and stressed that the move did not mean a change in the way the company scans the internet in general.

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