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AI agents have no rules, so Meta wrote its own

Fast Company·Oct 27, 2026 · 3:00 AM CT
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Meta changed its terms of service in a way that seemed to let it crawl and use content from any website tied to a Meta business account, including to train AI, Nieman Lab reported. After legal experts warned publishers, Meta quickly removed the word "train" and limited the scraping to its advertising and business products, Fast Company writes.

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