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Saturday 24 October 2026

Meta pushes scraping terms to 20 November after backlash

Meta has delayed its new business terms from 30 October to 20 November after news publishers and UK and EU regulators objected to its crawling clause.

Suki Marr Saturday 24 October 2026, open calendar6 min read

Photo: InvadingInvader / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0), cropped

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Meta has blinked. The new business terms that news publishers say would let it crawl their websites for free won't take effect on 30 October after all.

Aerial view of Meta's headquarters campus in Menlo Park, California, beside the Bayfront Expressway — Photo: InvadingInvader / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0), cropped

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