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

Global Published 16 October 2026, 19:02 · archived 16 Oct 2026

Meta's new terms appear to give it permission to crawl and scrape websites "associated" with the businesses that use its platforms - including online publishers, according to a report from Nieman Lab. The new terms, which go into effect on October 30th, say Meta can use this outside content to "develop, improve, research," and "train" […]

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