Meta has updated its commercial terms to remove language that appeared to permit the company to scrape content from websites, including news outlets, for use in training its artificial intelligence models. The change follows significant backlash from media organizations and legal experts who viewed the previous clauses as overly broad. The deleted text stated that Meta could use content from domains, web pages, or URLs to develop, improve, and train its products and services. This specific phrasing no longer appears on the company's commercial terms page. Neiman Lab and James Grimmelmann, a professor of digital and information law at Cornell University, interpreted the removed language as granting Meta extensive rights to utilize external web content. The update addresses concerns that the platform was claiming ownership or usage rights over third-party data without explicit consent.