What Meta’s New Scraping Terms Mean for Publishers
technology policy Oct 16, 2026 6 min read

What Meta’s New Scraping Terms Mean for Publishers

Meta’s commercial terms, scheduled for October 30, 2026, could give the company broad permission to crawl websites connected to business accounts and use collected material to train its products. Publishers need to understand the difference between contractual permission, robots.txt instructions, technical access controls, and copyright ownership.

by ahsan