Meta got caught with its hand in the publisher cookie jar and quietly changed the label on the jar—but its fingers are still inside. The company revised its commercial terms after wording emerged that would have let it scrape business websites to train its AI models, swapping the word
Meta Quietly Rewrites Terms After Being Caught Scraping Content for AI
Backtracks on 'train' language but keeps crawling rights—and your opt-out doesn't bind them.

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