Business · 2026-10-23

Meta Delays New Business Terms After Publishers' Protest

Meta is postponing the launch of new terms for partners because publishers feared the change would give the company the right to collect text from news sites to train AI.

✨ What happened

Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram, is delaying the start of its new business terms. The reason is that news publishers expressed concern.

They feared that under the new rules Meta could copy texts from news sites to train its AI models. Fast Company reported this earlier.

📌 What Meta says

Meta spokesperson Daniel Roberts told The Verge that the new terms will take effect on November 20. According to him, the delay is needed to allow time for discussion. No more details are available in the accessible part of the text.

🔹 Why it matters

For ordinary people, this story shows that the data we publish online is often valuable material for AI. News sites want to control whether their articles can be used for such purposes and whether they get something in return.

So the dispute over terms for publishers concerns not only big companies, but also who earns money from the texts that journalists create, and how.

Sources: 🔗 The Verge — AI