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Meta terms could permit AI training on associated news sites
Oct 16, 2026SOURCE: theverge.com
SO WHAT
This advances the inversion: models can extract cognition from the open web while the old consent regime lags, tightening the thousand-day window for meaningful choice.
New terms reportedly let Meta crawl and scrape “associated” businesses’ sites, including publishers. The signal is less about data access, more about who owns the inference pipeline.
This is Negative Resistance’s reframed reading of a reported signal. The headline and analysis above are our interpretation through the thousand-day-window lens. The original reporting lives at the source linked above.