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Deep Dive: Meta’s AI could still scrape news sites, legal experts say

Ran in the 6:05 PM edition of LivePulse, Thursday, October 22, 2026
Original reporting: The Verge AI · Emma Roth, 2026-10-22

Meta has tweaked its business terms to remove language suggesting that it could freely train its AI models on news sites, like The Verge — but legal experts say these changes aren’t enough to address their concerns. “This does nothing to restrict the ‘associated with your products or services’ [language] that would let Meta scrape entire sites,” James Grimmelmann, a professor of digital and information law at Cornell Law School, tells Nieman Lab.

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