EBU challenges Meta's content-scraping terms

The European Broadcasting Union is demanding changes to Meta's commercial terms, warning they grant broad permission to scrape linked websites.

“The European Broadcasting Union is demanding changes to Meta's commercial terms, warning they grant broad permission to scrape linked websites. Public-service media use Meta business accounts to manage their pages, potentially exposing publisher content to the company's artificial-intelligence agents. The EBU wants a penalty-free opt-out, arguing broadcasters should retain control over journalism and archives connected to their social accounts. The dispute turns platform access into a rights negotiation, testing whether media companies can resist artificial-intelligence reuse without losing distribution.”