6 November 2026

Meta pauses business terms that would have let it scrape customers' websites

First reported

Ars Technica and Computerworld ran this on 6 November, all on the same day.

Meta paused indefinitely new terms for its business customers that would have let it take content from their websites for AI.
The terms would also have made businesses responsible for errors produced by faulty AI, and offered no way to opt out.
Courts in Brazil and Norway blocked the terms, and the UK competition regulator opened a formal investigation into the company.

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