IntelliTechs · Oct 18, 2026
If you run a website, store or Page tied to a Meta business account, read the updated terms and check your site's robots.txt, the file that tells bots what they may access.
Meta had updated its commercial terms, the rules for businesses that use its products such as ads and Pages.
Legal experts who spoke with Nieman Lab called it a "remarkable provision." In their reading, it could give Meta grounds to scrape any publisher with a Meta business account and train its…
Before the removal, a Meta spokesperson said the update did not reflect a change in how the company crawls the web and described it as a consolidation of existing language.
This lands at a sensitive time for Meta. The company won a high-profile copyright lawsuit over AI training in 2025, but other cases against AI companies, Meta included, are still going.
Pulling the language removes an ambiguity, but it doesn't settle the bigger question of how AI companies get training data.
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