Meta revises terms governing website content: What's new and changed? What rights do publishers retain now? Explained

Meta will update its website terms on 30 October, removing explicit language authorising the use of crawled content to train its products. The terms still allow automated crawling and collection, with stated purposes narrowed to advertising and business products and product security.
Story file
- Section
- Tech
- Topics
- AI & gadgets, Railways & travel
- First reported by
- Mint
- Reporter
- sayak basu
- Published
- Sunday, 18 October 2026, 11:26 pm IST
- Coverage
- One outlet so far
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