Meta 删除可能允许其抓取新闻网站内容的条款
Meta removes language that may have allowed it to scrape news sites
Meta 在遭遇反对后更新商业条款，删除了被解读为允许其抓取网站（含新闻网站）内容用于训练 AI 的表述。Meta 传播副总裁 Andy Stone 与发言人 Daniel Roberts 此前称抓取方式未变，Roberts 最新声明称该合并条款仅适用于广告和商业产品，内容所有者仍可通过 robots.txt 表达偏好。
Language that experts say allowed the scraping of news sites to train its AI has been removed from Meta’s terms.
Language that experts say allowed the scraping of news sites to train its AI has been removed from Meta’s terms.
by Terrence O'Brien
Oct 17, 2026, 3:04 PM UTC
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Terrence O'Brien
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After backlash, Meta is updating its terms again to remove language that suggested it could scrape content from sites, including news sites, to train its AI. Specifically, the following language no longer appears on the commercial terms page:
… Meta may use any content from such domains, web pages, or URLs to provide, develop, improve, research, train, and maintain the integrity of, the Meta Company Products, services, and features provided under these Commercial Terms and any other applicable supplemental terms.
Many, including Neiman Lab and James Grimmelmann, a professor of digital and information law at Cornell, interpreted it as an attempt to give Meta the right to use content scraped from sites to train its AI products for free and supersede blocking instructions in a site’s robots.txt file.
Andy Stone, Meta’s vice president of communications, and spokesperson Daniel Roberts pushed back, saying that “There is no change to how Meta uses web crawlers; any suggestion to the contrary is false.” Today’s update to its terms and a new statement go further, removing the controversial language entirely. Roberts said in a follow-up statement to The Verge this morning:
“We’ve heard you and want to clarify: the crawling terms we consolidated only applied to our ads and business products, and we’ve clarified that in the terms themselves. It does not change how Meta uses web crawlers. As always, content owners can use robots.txt to signal their preferences. This is not about scraping news sites, and these updates don’t give us new rights that supersede those preferences.”
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