Meta grants itself right to scrape content from business customers for model training

Businesses using Facebook commercially may want to think twice about what information they share online. At the end of the month, Meta plans to introduce terms that would authorize it to collect content from websites associated with its business customers and use it to train AI models or otherwise improve its products. The ad biz has revised its commercial terms of service, and the new contractual language takes effect on October 30, 2026. There are at least a million businesses using the company's AI agents in WhatsApp and Messenger, to say nothing of other services like Instagram, Facebook, its widely used advertising service, or its less widely used business suite. As noted by Nieman Lab, almost every news publisher has at least one Meta business account. …