United StatesBusinesses cannot opt out of Meta’s October 30 crawling terms.
Nearly every news publisher holds a business account, so its articles fall under the terms.
The terms authorise crawlers and test logins on linked domains to train Meta products, which experts say could bypass paywalls.
Meta says it is only streamlining terms and will still honour robots.txt blocks.
The terms start October 30, and 3 legal experts say it is unclear whether courts would enforce them.
How each outlet framed it
- Ars Technica leans critical
- reads the terms change as a legal AI-training grab, noting news publishers face the most exposure given the OpenAI fair-use fight
Sources: Ars Technica