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Claimant: Social Media
Claim: Meta is updating the terms and conditions of its privacy policy to allow it to scrape data to train artificial intelligence models.
Rating: MOSTLY TRUE
Explanation: Meta’s updated terms for business accounts permit broad automated collection of content from websites associated with those accounts, potentially including paywalled material. However, the terms do not apply to ordinary users, and after Meta changed the wording, it remained unclear whether or how the collected material would be used to train AI models.
Date: 10/26/2026
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Last Updated on October 26, 2026 by Media Bias Fact Check