Tech“Does Meta think we can’t read?” Company indefinitely delays disputed commercial terms update

After weeks of backlash and an unsuccessful effort to ease it, Meta has indefinitely postponed a commercial-terms update that would require Meta Business account users to permit extensive AI training on external sites linked from Facebook. Meta said current terms remain in force while it consults stakeholders. Legal experts warned the vague wording could let Meta disregard robots.txt preferences, crawl large volumes of outside content and potentially avoid millions in licensing fees.

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