Trade Group Demands Meta Drop New Terms That Would Allow It To Take Content

MediaPost.com: MediaDailyNews · last updated October 22, 2026 – 6:44 PM

The News/Media Alliance has demanded that Meta withdraw a clause in its revised Commercial Terms prior to their taking effect on October 30. The new terms would allow Meta to send robots to publishers’ websites to scrape their content and would amount to their handing over of their journalism for free to be able to promote it on Meta’s app, the trade group said in a three-page letter to Mark Zuckerberg, chief executive of Meta.

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