[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"news-post-\u002Fnews\u002Fmeta-pauses-business-ad-terms-ai-scraping":3,"news-related-en-\u002Fnews\u002Fmeta-pauses-business-ad-terms-ai-scraping":176,"hreflang-meta-business-terms-pause-2026-11":196},{"doc":4,"redirect":8},{"id":5,"title":6,"author":7,"author_avatar":8,"body":9,"category":156,"date":157,"description":158,"extension":159,"image":160,"meta":161,"navigation":162,"path":163,"seo":164,"seoDescription":165,"seoTitle":166,"stem":167,"tags":168,"translationKey":174,"updatedAt":8,"__hash__":175},"news_en\u002Fnews\u002Fmeta-pauses-business-ad-terms-ai-scraping.md","Meta pauses its new ad and business terms after the AI scraping backlash","Paul Lefizelier",null,{"type":10,"value":11,"toc":147},"minimark",[12,25,41,46,54,60,70,74,90,94,104,113,117,127,131,141],[13,14,15,16,24],"p",{},"Meta has put on hold, with no new date, the update to its business terms that publishers had fought for three weeks. On Thursday 5 November 2026 the company removed the preview of the new terms and posted a notice in its Business Help Center saying the updates \"are now paused and will not take effect on November 20, 2026\" (",[17,18,23],"a",{"href":19,"rel":20,"target":22},"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.niemanlab.org\u002F2026\u002F11\u002Fmeta-pulls-down-controversial-terms-of-service\u002F",[21],"nofollow","_blank","Nieman Lab",").",[13,26,27,28,33,34,37,38,24],{},"The pause covers four documents: the Meta Commercial Terms, the Product Catalog Terms, the Self-Serve Ad Terms and the Ad Creative Generative AI Terms (",[17,29,32],{"href":30,"rel":31,"target":22},"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.investing.com\u002Fnews\u002Fstock-market-news\u002Fmeta-pauses-planned-terms-updates-keeps-existing-rules-in-place-5007156",[21],"Reuters via Investing.com","). \"We're pausing the changes as we continue to engage with stakeholders and take our time to get this right. In the meantime, our existing terms remain in effect,\" a Meta spokesperson said (",[17,35,32],{"href":30,"rel":36,"target":22},[21],", ",[17,39,23],{"href":19,"rel":40,"target":22},[21],[42,43,45],"h2",{"id":44},"what-the-new-terms-would-have-changed","What the new terms would have changed",[13,47,48,49,24],{},"Nieman Lab first reported on the terms on 15 October. Legal experts told the publication that the wording was vague enough to let Meta ignore scraping preferences set in robots.txt files and crawl large amounts of content outside Facebook for AI training (",[17,50,53],{"href":51,"rel":52,"target":22},"https:\u002F\u002Farstechnica.com\u002Ftech-policy\u002F2026\u002F11\u002Fdoes-meta-think-we-cant-read-meta-abandons-sketchy-commercial-terms-update\u002F",[21],"Ars Technica",[13,55,56,57,24],{},"The concern was concrete for news organisations, because nearly every publisher runs a Facebook page. According to Ars Technica's reading of the terms, businesses had no way to opt out: keeping a business page meant allowing Meta to crawl the external sites linked from it, and the terms even asked publishers to create test credentials so Meta's crawlers could get past paywalls (",[17,58,53],{"href":51,"rel":59,"target":22},[21],[13,61,62,63,66,67,24],{},"Meta adjusted the text once. On 16 October it removed the word \"train\" and limited the use of content scraped in future to \"advertising and business products\" (",[17,64,23],{"href":19,"rel":65,"target":22},[21],"). Publishers were not reassured. Theo Bamber, chief executive of the UK's News Media Association, wrote on LinkedIn: \"Does Meta think we can't read?\" He argued that the word \"develop\" carried the same risk as \"train\": \"It's saying it can use all the content it scrapes to develop 'any business product'. I mean, come on\" (",[17,68,53],{"href":51,"rel":69,"target":22},[21],[42,71,73],{"id":72},"two-delays-then-a-pause","Two delays, then a pause",[13,75,76,77,80,81,84,85,24],{},"The terms were first due to take effect on 30 October. On 23 October Meta moved that date back three weeks, to 20 November (",[17,78,23],{"href":19,"rel":79,"target":22},[21],"). On 28 October, Meta's vice president of communications, Andy Stone, said on X that the company would consult industry groups first: \"We've heard publishers' feedback on our proposed ads and business terms update. We care deeply about our partners and do not plan to make policy changes without a full consultation with industry groups and leaders\" (",[17,82,23],{"href":19,"rel":83,"target":22},[21],"). He added that implementation would be delayed if the consultation ran past 20 November. A week later, the update was paused with no new date (",[17,86,89],{"href":87,"rel":88,"target":22},"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.theverge.com\u002Ftech\u002F1028473\u002Fmeta-is-delaying-its-controversial-new-business-terms-indefinitely",[21],"The Verge",[42,91,93],{"id":92},"courts-a-regulator-and-two-senators","Courts, a regulator and two senators",[13,95,96,97,100,101,24],{},"The pressure did not come only from publishers. Courts in Norway and Brazil issued preliminary injunctions blocking the terms after media organisations in both countries sued (",[17,98,23],{"href":19,"rel":99,"target":22},[21],"). In the UK, the Competition and Markets Authority opened a formal investigation into whether Meta was \"abusing a dominant position by imposing exploitative terms on publishers and advertisers\" (",[17,102,23],{"href":19,"rel":103,"target":22},[21],[13,105,106,107,37,110,24],{},"In the United States, Senators Adam Schiff (Democrat, California) and Marsha Blackburn (Republican, Tennessee) each sent a letter to Mark Zuckerberg at the end of October asking him to withdraw the terms (",[17,108,23],{"href":19,"rel":109,"target":22},[21],[17,111,53],{"href":51,"rel":112,"target":22},[21],[42,114,116],{"id":115},"what-meta-says-about-crawling","What Meta says about crawling",[13,118,119,120,123,124,24],{},"Meta has said it would never use its terms to get around robots.txt. In a message to business page owners, it reminded them that \"our crawling practices remain unchanged, and content owners can continue to signal their crawling preferences using robots.txt\" (",[17,121,53],{"href":51,"rel":122,"target":22},[21],"). Nieman Lab notes, however, that the revised terms never included specific language committing Meta to respect robots.txt (",[17,125,53],{"href":51,"rel":126,"target":22},[21],[42,128,130],{"id":129},"why-it-matters-for-advertisers","Why it matters for advertisers",[13,132,133,134,137,138,24],{},"Two of the four paused documents are the rules advertisers accept when they buy media on Meta: the Self-Serve Ad Terms and the Ad Creative Generative AI Terms, which cover Meta's AI tools for generating ad creatives (",[17,135,32],{"href":30,"rel":136,"target":22},[21],"). For now nothing changes: Meta says its existing terms stay in force while it consults, and it has not said when a new version will come or what it will contain (",[17,139,23],{"href":19,"rel":140,"target":22},[21],[13,142,143,144,24],{},"The pause leaves the main question open: whether a business that keeps a Facebook page, or buys ads through Meta's self-serve tools, will have to let Meta reuse content from its own website. With an open investigation in the UK and injunctions in Norway and Brazil, the next version of these terms is likely to be read as closely as this one (",[17,145,23],{"href":19,"rel":146,"target":22},[21],{"title":148,"searchDepth":149,"depth":149,"links":150},"",2,[151,152,153,154,155],{"id":44,"depth":149,"text":45},{"id":72,"depth":149,"text":73},{"id":92,"depth":149,"text":93},{"id":115,"depth":149,"text":116},{"id":129,"depth":149,"text":130},"ai","2026-11-09T08:00:00","Meta has indefinitely paused updates to four sets of commercial and advertising terms that publishers said would let it crawl their sites to build AI and ad products.","md","\u002Fimages\u002Fnews\u002Fmeta-pauses-business-ad-terms-ai-scraping.jpg",{},true,"\u002Fnews\u002Fmeta-pauses-business-ad-terms-ai-scraping",{"title":6,"description":158},"Meta paused updates to its Commercial, Product Catalog, Self-Serve Ad and Ad Creative Generative AI Terms after publishers, courts and regulators objected to AI 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suspend ses nouvelles conditions publicitaires après la fronde contre le scraping pour l'IA",{"type":10,"value":306,"toc":427},[307,313,326,330,336,342,352,356,370,374,384,393,397,407,411,421],[13,308,309,310,24],{},"Meta a mis en pause, sans nouvelle date, la mise à jour de ses conditions professionnelles que les éditeurs combattaient depuis trois semaines. Le jeudi 5 novembre 2026, l'entreprise a retiré l'aperçu des nouvelles conditions et publié dans son Business Help Center un avis indiquant que ces mises à jour « sont désormais suspendues et n'entreront pas en vigueur le 20 novembre 2026 » (",[17,311,23],{"href":19,"rel":312,"target":22},[21],[13,314,315,316,319,320,37,323,24],{},"La pause concerne quatre documents : les Meta Commercial Terms, les Product Catalog Terms, les Self-Serve Ad Terms et les Ad Creative Generative AI Terms (",[17,317,32],{"href":30,"rel":318,"target":22},[21],"). « Nous suspendons ces changements le temps de poursuivre le dialogue avec les parties prenantes et de prendre le temps de bien faire les choses. En attendant, nos conditions actuelles restent en vigueur », a déclaré un porte-parole de Meta (",[17,321,32],{"href":30,"rel":322,"target":22},[21],[17,324,23],{"href":19,"rel":325,"target":22},[21],[42,327,329],{"id":328},"ce-que-les-nouvelles-conditions-auraient-changé","Ce que les nouvelles conditions auraient changé",[13,331,332,333,24],{},"Nieman Lab a révélé ces conditions le 15 octobre. Des juristes ont expliqué au média que leur formulation était assez floue pour permettre à Meta d'ignorer les préférences de scraping inscrites dans les fichiers robots.txt et d'explorer massivement des contenus extérieurs à Facebook pour entraîner ses modèles d'IA (",[17,334,53],{"href":51,"rel":335,"target":22},[21],[13,337,338,339,24],{},"L'enjeu était très concret pour les médias, puisque presque tous les éditeurs ont une page Facebook. Selon la lecture qu'en fait Ars Technica, les entreprises n'avaient aucun moyen de refuser : garder une page professionnelle revenait à autoriser Meta à explorer les sites externes liés depuis cette page, et les conditions demandaient même aux éditeurs de créer des identifiants de test pour que les robots de Meta puissent passer leurs paywalls (",[17,340,53],{"href":51,"rel":341,"target":22},[21],[13,343,344,345,348,349,24],{},"Meta a modifié le texte une fois. Le 16 octobre, l'entreprise a supprimé le mot « train » (entraîner) et limité l'usage des contenus aspirés à l'avenir aux « produits publicitaires et professionnels » (",[17,346,23],{"href":19,"rel":347,"target":22},[21],"). Les éditeurs n'ont pas été rassurés. Theo Bamber, directeur général de la News Media Association britannique, a écrit sur LinkedIn : « Meta pense-t-il que nous ne savons pas lire ? » Pour lui, le mot « develop » (développer) pose le même problème que « train » : « Cela dit que Meta peut utiliser tout le contenu qu'il aspire pour développer \"n'importe quel produit professionnel\". Franchement » (",[17,350,53],{"href":51,"rel":351,"target":22},[21],[42,353,355],{"id":354},"deux-reports-puis-une-pause","Deux reports, puis une pause",[13,357,358,359,362,363,366,367,24],{},"Les conditions devaient d'abord entrer en vigueur le 30 octobre. Le 23 octobre, Meta a repoussé cette date de trois semaines, au 20 novembre (",[17,360,23],{"href":19,"rel":361,"target":22},[21],"). Le 28 octobre, Andy Stone, vice-président chargé de la communication de Meta, a annoncé sur X que l'entreprise consulterait d'abord le secteur : « Nous avons entendu les retours des éditeurs sur notre projet de mise à jour des conditions publicitaires et professionnelles. Nos partenaires comptent beaucoup pour nous et nous ne prévoyons pas de changer nos règles sans une consultation complète des organisations et des acteurs du secteur » (",[17,364,23],{"href":19,"rel":365,"target":22},[21],"). Il ajoutait que la mise en œuvre serait repoussée si la consultation se prolongeait au-delà du 20 novembre. Une semaine plus tard, la mise à jour était suspendue sans nouvelle date (",[17,368,89],{"href":87,"rel":369,"target":22},[21],[42,371,373],{"id":372},"des-tribunaux-un-régulateur-et-deux-sénateurs","Des tribunaux, un régulateur et deux sénateurs",[13,375,376,377,380,381,24],{},"La pression ne venait pas que des éditeurs. En Norvège et au Brésil, des tribunaux ont rendu des injonctions provisoires bloquant ces conditions, après des plaintes déposées par des organisations de médias dans ces deux pays (",[17,378,23],{"href":19,"rel":379,"target":22},[21],"). Au Royaume-Uni, la Competition and Markets Authority a ouvert une enquête formelle pour déterminer si Meta « abuse d'une position dominante en imposant des conditions abusives aux éditeurs et aux annonceurs » (",[17,382,23],{"href":19,"rel":383,"target":22},[21],[13,385,386,387,37,390,24],{},"Aux États-Unis, les sénateurs Adam Schiff (démocrate, Californie) et Marsha Blackburn (républicaine, Tennessee) ont chacun écrit à Mark Zuckerberg fin octobre pour lui demander de retirer ces conditions (",[17,388,23],{"href":19,"rel":389,"target":22},[21],[17,391,53],{"href":51,"rel":392,"target":22},[21],[42,394,396],{"id":395},"ce-que-dit-meta-sur-lexploration-des-sites","Ce que dit Meta sur l'exploration des sites",[13,398,399,400,403,404,24],{},"Meta affirme qu'il n'utiliserait jamais ses conditions pour contourner robots.txt. Dans un message aux propriétaires de pages professionnelles, l'entreprise a rappelé que « nos pratiques d'exploration restent inchangées et les propriétaires de contenus peuvent continuer à signaler leurs préférences via robots.txt » (",[17,401,53],{"href":51,"rel":402,"target":22},[21],"). Nieman Lab relève toutefois que les conditions révisées n'ont jamais contenu de formulation précise engageant Meta à respecter robots.txt (",[17,405,53],{"href":51,"rel":406,"target":22},[21],[42,408,410],{"id":409},"ce-que-ça-change-pour-les-annonceurs","Ce que ça change pour les annonceurs",[13,412,413,414,417,418,24],{},"Deux des quatre documents suspendus sont les règles que les annonceurs acceptent lorsqu'ils achètent de la publicité chez Meta : les Self-Serve Ad Terms et les Ad Creative Generative AI Terms, qui encadrent les outils d'IA de Meta pour générer des créations publicitaires (",[17,415,32],{"href":30,"rel":416,"target":22},[21],"). Pour l'instant, rien ne change : Meta indique que ses conditions actuelles restent en vigueur pendant la consultation, sans dire quand une nouvelle version arrivera ni ce qu'elle contiendra (",[17,419,23],{"href":19,"rel":420,"target":22},[21],[13,422,423,424,24],{},"La pause laisse la question principale en suspens : une entreprise qui garde une page Facebook, ou qui achète de la publicité via les outils en libre-service de Meta, devra-t-elle laisser Meta réutiliser les contenus de son propre site ? Avec une enquête ouverte au Royaume-Uni et des injonctions en Norvège et au Brésil, la prochaine version de ces conditions sera sans doute lue d'aussi près que celle-ci (",[17,425,23],{"href":19,"rel":426,"target":22},[21],{"title":148,"searchDepth":149,"depth":149,"links":428},[429,430,431,432,433],{"id":328,"depth":149,"text":329},{"id":354,"depth":149,"text":355},{"id":372,"depth":149,"text":373},{"id":395,"depth":149,"text":396},{"id":409,"depth":149,"text":410},"Meta a suspendu sans date la mise à jour de quatre jeux de conditions commerciales et publicitaires qui, selon les éditeurs, lui auraient permis d'aspirer leurs sites pour ses produits d'IA et de publicité.",{},"\u002Ffr\u002Fnews\u002Fmeta-suspend-conditions-publicitaires-scraping-ia",{"title":304,"description":434},"Meta suspend la mise à jour de ses Commercial, Product Catalog, Self-Serve Ad et Ad Creative Generative AI Terms après l'opposition d'éditeurs, de tribunaux et de régulateurs.","Meta suspend ses conditions publicitaires après la fronde IA","fr\u002Fnews\u002Fmeta-suspend-conditions-publicitaires-scraping-ia",[169,442,443,444,173],"publicite","editeurs","entrainement-ia","moGGmAXElvWBdxAEY6Mj5J25DU7riKCebLroUlzBw-g"]