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Meta revises AI terms, but lawyers say scraping risk remains
Oct 22, 2026SOURCE: theverge.com
SO WHAT
In the thousand-day window, this is a weak signal: even tightened terms can leave enforcement ambiguity, accelerating a shift from human publishing rights to machine-access default.
Meta changed language that implied free training from news sites, including The Verge. Legal experts argue the update doesn’t clearly narrow “associated with” coverage, leaving the old system’s reach intact.
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.