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Meta Discovers Page Owners Can Read the Terms
· New York time
Meta says it will not force Facebook page owners to allow AI training on linked content after backlash to a commercial terms update. The reversal follows concern over whether maintaining a page would require accepting that use of linked material. The issue puts creators and publishers in a familiar negotiation with a platform that distributes their work. A term about AI training can affect more than a routine account setting: it goes to how content connected to a page may be used beyond its original publication. Meta's change gives page owners a different outcome from the one they feared. It also supplies a rare plot twist for a terms update: people read the clause and objected before clicking past it. The fine print was apparently meant to do the quiet work. Instead, it found itself in a very public meeting with its intended signatories.
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