- According to the original article, Meta's new commercial terms take effect on 30 October 2026. Businesses and media outlets that keep using Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp business accounts are deemed to agree that Meta may collect websites linked to those accounts with web scrapers.
- The original article reports that three legal experts reviewed the terms and found that this clause could be read as a basis for using news site content to train Meta AI. It adds that whether a court would accept this is uncertain.
- Until the terms take effect, business accounts have no option to decline them. The article says the only guidance for those who do not agree is to stop using Meta products for business.
- Meta replied that this content gathers provisions previously scattered across several terms and that the crawling method does not change. It also said content access can be managed with a robots.txt file. This is Meta's claim.
O: An editor who runs a news site and uses a Meta business account might want to open the terms change notice directly and judge whether to keep the account, October 30 days ago.
X: Meta argues that it only compiled the existing terms and that the crawling method has not changed, but whether legal experts' interpretations and court rulings will go that way is not yet settled.