Meta Tweaks Its New Terms Of Service After Backlash Against Scraping
The changes have alarmed publishers and others with business accounts.
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Meta has tweaked its terms of service for business accounts after a swift backlash against an update scheduled to take effect later this month. The company removed a reference to AI training from its commercial terms, but there are still questions about its ability to scrape the websites, including those of publishers, that have business accounts on the platform.
The social media company initially shared a planned update to its commercial terms last week. As flagged byNieman Lab, the new language stated that Meta would have the right to use web scrapers and other automated tools "to access, index, cache, analyze, collect, retrieve, or crawl the domains, web pages, or URLs (and any content available through them)" associated with business accounts on the platform. "Meta may use any content from such domains, web pages, or...
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