{"slug": "meta-pauses-change-to-terms-of-service-after-publishers-voice-concerns", "title": "Meta pauses change to terms of service after publishers voice concerns", "summary": "Meta is pausing changes to its terms of service that Canadian news publishers feared would let websites tied to a business account be scraped for artificial intelligence purposes, Meta spokesperson Julia Perreira said in an email, adding the pause will let the company engage with stakeholders and \"take the time to get this right.\" Several Canadian journalism organizations whose content Meta has blocked in response to the Online News Act raised concerns about the once-incoming policy, and European and British publishers with similar concerns had asked governments and regulators to step in. The report by The Canadian Press was first published Nov. 5, 2026.", "body_md": "The U.S. tech giant behind Facebook and Instagram is pausing the implementation of a policy that concerned Canadian news publishers.\n\nMedia companies feared the changes to Meta's terms of services would allow websites associated with a business account to be scraped for artificial intelligence purposes.\n\nMeta spokesperson Julia Perreira says in an email that the company is pausing the changes.\n\nShe says the pause will help the company engage with stakeholders and \"take the time to get this right.\"\n\nSeveral Canadian journalism organizations, whose content Meta has blocked from its platforms in response to the Online News Act, were worried about how their work would be impacted by the once-incoming policy.\n\nEuropean and British publishers has similar concerns and had asked governments and regulators to step in.\n\nSome Canadian news publishers already use robots.txt to block bots from AI companies like OpenAI.\n\nA number of news outlets, including The Canadian Press, have launched lawsuits against OpenAI and Anthropic over the use of copyrighted content for training AI systems.\n\nThis report by The Canadian Press was first published Nov. 5, 2026.\n\nThe Canadian Press", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/meta-pauses-change-to-terms-of-service-after-publishers-voice-concerns", "canonical_source": "https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/meta-pauses-change-terms-publishers-212728235.html", "published_at": "2026-11-05 21:27:28+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-11-05 21:53:33.686410+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-policy", "ai-crawlers", "artificial-intelligence"], "entities": ["Meta", "Julia Perreira", "Facebook", "Instagram", "Online News Act", "OpenAI", "Anthropic", "The Canadian Press"], "also_reported_by": [], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/meta-pauses-change-to-terms-of-service-after-publishers-voice-concerns", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/meta-pauses-change-to-terms-of-service-after-publishers-voice-concerns.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/meta-pauses-change-to-terms-of-service-after-publishers-voice-concerns.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/meta-pauses-change-to-terms-of-service-after-publishers-voice-concerns.jsonld"}}