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Meta's own legal terms for Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Messenger, including the Commercial Terms that bind every business account, and the Business Help Centre notices that announce changes to them. Primary for what a business agrees to and from which date.

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Our screenshot of the US English version of Meta's Commercial Terms, effective October 30, 2026: the clause that authorizes Meta to crawl a business's websites now ends with advertising and business products and the integrity and security of Meta's products, with no mention of training.
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Meta removes AI training from its new business terms, but keeps the right to crawl linked websites

Meta has rewritten the website-crawling clause in the US English version of its updated Commercial Terms. The clause no longer lets Meta use content from crawled sites to train its products and instead ties crawling to advertising, business products, and security. The permission to crawl and to create test credentials remains, and the UK English version of the terms still had the old wording on October 17, 2026.

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Screenshot of Meta's Commercial Terms page, with a notice that the updated terms take effect on October 30, 2026, and the opening paragraph listing the business uses they cover.
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Meta's new business terms let it crawl linked websites and use their content for training from October 30

Meta's updated Commercial Terms take effect on October 30, 2026, and add a clause that authorizes it to crawl websites associated with a business account. The content may be used to develop and train Meta's products. Meta calls the update a consolidation of existing terms, and the only alternative the terms offer is to stop using its products for business.

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