Meta postponed its new business terms from October 30 to November 20 following publisher objections. The company says the delay provides time to explain the changes, crawler use and how content owners can signal preferences through robots.txt. Although wording about training products had been removed, publishers and legal experts argued that AI-training use was not adequately ruled out. This is a change in timing, not a resolution of content-rights disputes or a promise to stop collecting material.
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Meta delays business terms amid AI-scraping objections
The new November 20 date does not resolve disputes over training use and crawling permissions.