Meta removes language that raised scraping and AI training concerns

Key points

• Meta has removed a provision from its commercial terms of use that had raised concerns about scraping publisher websites to train its AI models. The clause allowed the company to use content from business account domains, web pages and URLs.
• Legal experts had described it as a remarkable provision.
• Meta said the crawling terms applied only to its ads and business products, and that the change does not alter how it uses web crawlers.