Meta delays new business terms after publisher pushback on AI scraping

Meta is delaying enforcement of its new business terms to November 20th after publishers raised concerns the terms could let it scrape news sites for AI training. The terms were originally set to take effect October 30th, and the News/Media Alliance demanded revisions, warning of "severe harm" to publishers. Meta spokesperson Daniel Roberts said the delay allows more time to explain how Meta uses web crawlers and that content owners can still use robots.txt to signal preferences.