Meta’s new Commercial Terms authorize it to crawl websites tied to business users, even creating test credentials, and use what it collects to train #Meta products, e.g., #Facebook, #Instagram, #WhatsApp. Legal experts say publisher sites could be swept in. The asymmetry is hard to miss: Meta tightly restricts others from scraping its platforms while claiming broad rights to scrape yours. #DigitalRights #AI #Privacy https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/10/metas-new-commercial-terms-will-allow-the-scraping-of-news-sites-legal-experts-say/