Meta Updates Commercial Terms to Allow Web Scraping by Bots and Crawlers

Meta updated its Commercial Terms to take effect on October 30, permitting the company to send bots and crawlers into websites associated with business accounts.

Harvard University's Nieman Lab reported that the change allows broad-scale content scraping and potential use of gathered data to train Meta's artificial intelligence models.

Businesses, publishers, and news organizations have been advised to review the platform update due to potential intellectual property implications.