Meta removes disputed wording from its commercial terms
The Verge reported on October 17 that Meta had removed wording about scraping publishers' work for AI training. Publishers had raised concerns about that wording. Meta says its crawler practices have not changed. Nieman Lab had reported concerns from legal experts about the old terms.
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Meta changed the disputed wording, but the edit does not show what Meta crawled or settle separate copyright questions.
Compare Meta's revised terms with its crawler instructions and any later publisher agreements. The revised policy cannot show how Meta's crawler behaved before the change.
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