{
  "id": 14841910,
  "title": "Business accounts will consent to Meta scraping their websites Starting Oct. 30",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/15/business-accounts-will-consent-to-meta-scraping-their-websites",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-10-15T23:37:42.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Hacker News",
    "slug": "hacker-news",
    "url": "https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/10/metas-new-commercial-terms-will-allow-the-scraping-of-news-sites-legal-experts-say/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Starting October 30, business accounts will allow Meta to crawl and collect content from websites associated with those accounts on Facebook, Instagram, or WhatsApp, according to the company's new commercial terms of use. The update will affect news publishers with business accounts, which allow companies or public figures to manage various Meta platforms from one place. Legal experts warn that this provision could enable Meta to use content from news sites to train its AI products, potentially causing significant financial harm. Meta has not provided an option for business accounts to opt out of the new terms ahead of the October 30 implementation.",
  "summary": null,
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
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  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 2,
    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "Techmeme",
        "title": "Experts say Meta's new terms of use will allow scraping of websites, including news sites, \"associated with\" business accounts on its platforms, with no opt out (Nieman Lab)",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/15/experts-say-metas-new-terms-of-use-will-allow-scraping-of-websites",
        "published": "2026-10-15T21:00:48.000Z"
      }
    ]
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}