GoKawiilMeta delays new business account terms by three weeks after publisher backlash
Meta Platforms has postponed the rollout of new commercial terms of service for business accounts following criticism from news publishers. The terms, announced earlier this month, were said by critics to grant Meta broad rights to crawl and scrape web content linked to those accounts. Meta has pushed the effective date back three weeks but says it still intends to implement the policy.
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The delay suggests Meta is weighing publisher pushback without abandoning its underlying plan, which could still reshape how content tied to business accounts can be used for data collection or AI training. Publishers may see the short delay as insufficient time to negotiate changes, leaving tension over web-scraping rights unresolved.
- Meta postponed new business account terms by three weeks amid publisher criticism.
- Critics argue the terms would let Meta broadly crawl and scrape associated web content.
- Meta has not abandoned the policy, only delayed its implementation.
Source: fastcompany.com, 2026-10-23
Published there as: “Meta quietly delays controversial update that critics say will allow website scraping”
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