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WAN-IFRA calls on Meta to suspend Commercial Terms clause allowing crawling of publishers' websites

22 अक्टू॰ 2026 · सार्वजनिक स्रोतों से स्वचालित रूप से एकत्र किया गया। किसी व्यक्ति द्वारा समीक्षित नहीं।

यह सामग्री केवल अपनी मूल भाषा (अंग्रेज़ी) में उपलब्ध है।

What happened

WAN-IFRA, the World Association of News Publishers, published a statement dated 22 October 2026 saying it had written to Meta's Chief Global Affairs Officer, Joel Kaplan, calling on Meta to suspend a provision in its new Commercial Terms. The statement is signed by WAN-IFRA president Ladina Heimgartner, Irene Lanzaco, chair of the Directors of Member Associations Committee, and chief executive Stig Ørskov. WAN-IFRA describes itself as uniting more than 20,000 media brands and 60 national publishers' associations in 120 countries.

The provision at issue would authorise Meta to use automated tools and test credentials to access websites associated with any business using its services, and to keep collecting updates from them. Because almost every news organisation maintains a Facebook Page, business profile or advertising account, WAN-IFRA says the provision would reach publishers' journalism worldwide, not only content they choose to share on Meta's platforms.

What WAN-IFRA asks for

  • Suspend the crawling provision for news publishers from 30 October, pending dialogue with the sector.
  • Remove the right to create test credentials and commit that paywalls and other access controls will not be circumvented.
  • Make robots.txt and other machine-readable reservations of rights binding in the terms.
  • Exclude the use of publishers' content to develop or power AI systems unless it is licensed.
  • Allow publishers to decline the provision without losing access to Meta's business tools.

WAN-IFRA argues that although Meta removed an explicit reference to AI training after criticism, the revised wording still allows content to be used to develop Meta's business products, which include generative AI services, and that Meta's public assurances about respecting robots.txt are not written into the terms. The statement also raises Meta One, a subscription service under which Facebook Pages must pay to post more than two links a month to their own websites; WAN-IFRA says Meta has said informally that news publishers are excluded but has published neither its criteria nor the markets concerned, and asks for a written, lasting exclusion.

Status and limits

This is an advocacy position from a publishers' association, not a regulatory finding. No response from Meta is quoted in the statement. An addendum dated 23 October 2026 notes Meta postponed the terms' entry into force from 30 October to 20 November 2026; Ørskov is quoted welcoming the postponement as a step that does not address the concerns, and saying WAN-IFRA will continue to press its demands. The full text of the letter is linked from the statement; this item follows the statement's summary of it. WAN-IFRA says its letter builds on earlier action by regional and national associations, including the News/Media Alliance in the United States, the News Media Association in the United Kingdom, and EMMA, ENPA, EPC and NME in Europe.

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