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Meta drops ‘train’ from its website-crawling terms after backlash
The Next Web
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Meta revised its terms to remove the word 'train' from clauses allowing it to crawl websites linked to its ads and business tools, following backlash from businesses and media. However, critics argue the change does not fully prevent Meta from using scraped content for AI training, and concerns remain about respecting website crawler restrictions like robots.txt.
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