Meta removes language that may have allowed it to scrape news sites — Live Feedhttps://www.live-feeds.com/feed/meta-removes-language-that-may-have-allowed-it-to-scrape-news-sitesContinuously updated, source-cited coverage. Meta Removes Terms That Sparked News Scraping and AI Training Concernshttps://www.live-feeds.com/feed/meta-removes-language-that-may-have-allowed-it-to-scrape-news-siteshttps://www.live-feeds.com/feed/meta-removes-language-that-may-have-allowed-it-to-scrape-news-sites#u142970Wed, 21 Oct 2026 10:48:34 +0000Meta has removed controversial language from its commercial terms of service that legal experts warned could allow the company to scrape news sites and business customer content for artificial intelligence model training. The updates followed widespread backlash from publishers and industry groups over potential avoidance of licensing fees. Meta stated the terms applied exclusively to ads and business products rather than AI training. Despite dropping the specific word regarding training, the tech giant chose not to add language respecting robots.txt files, leaving ongoing questions about how