Overview
- The company announced Friday that it has paused the planned commercial-terms updates, removed the preview link, and said the changes will not take effect on November 20, 2026.
- The draft language would have required business accounts to let Meta use content from linked domains and pages to 'provide, develop, improve, research, train, and maintain' its products, a clause Meta later narrowed by removing the word 'train'.
- Courts in Norway and Brazil granted preliminary injunctions blocking the terms and the UK Competition and Markets Authority opened a formal probe, while U.S. senators wrote to Meta asking it to withdraw the proposal.
- Publishers and industry groups warned the clause could let Meta reuse paywalled or protected journalism without payment and that technical signals like robots.txt might not stop contract-based scraping.
- Meta says it will consult publishers and other stakeholders before any change takes effect, and the ongoing legal and regulatory actions could force explicit limits, opt-outs, or formal conditions on how platforms gather and reuse web content.