# Meta — the record

Meta runs Meta AI and the Meta-ExternalAgent crawler, and its business terms claim rights to crawl content for AI, terms publishers have asked regulators to halt.

Also known as: https://about.meta.com/ · https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meta_Platforms · https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q380

- 2026-10-23: Publishers ask EU, UK to halt Meta AI-scraping terms (https://anythingengineoptimization.com/item/2026-10-23-publishers-ask-eu-uk-to-halt-meta-ai-scraping-terms/)
  The Movement for an Open Web, an advocacy group whose members include digital advertisers and publishers, has complained to the European Commission and…
- 2026-10-22: News/Media Alliance demands Meta withdraw AI scraping terms (https://anythingengineoptimization.com/item/2026-10-22-news-media-alliance-demands-meta-withdraw-ai-scraping-terms/)
  News/Media Alliance, the US publishers' trade group, sent Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg a letter on Oct. 22 demanding the company fully withdraw its revised…
- 2026-10-19: DataDome: Meta's crawlers drove half of Q3 AI agent traffic (https://anythingengineoptimization.com/item/2026-10-19-datadome-meta-s-crawlers-drove-half-of-q3-ai-agent-traffic/)
  AI agent traffic across DataDome's network grew 41.5% quarter over quarter to nearly 25 billion requests in Q3 2026, up from about 17.7 billion in Q2, per…
- 2026-10-17: Meta narrows AI-scraping clause in its business terms (https://anythingengineoptimization.com/item/2026-10-17-meta-narrows-ai-scraping-clause-in-its-business-terms/)
  Meta edited its commercial terms, which take effect Oct 30, after Nieman Lab and legal experts warned the original wording could let Meta scrape news…
- 2026-10-02: Meta's Muse, Instinct shopping agents don't cite sources (https://anythingengineoptimization.com/item/2026-10-02-meta-s-muse-instinct-shopping-agents-don-t-cite-sources/)
  Profound traced Meta's Muse — a personal-agent app that passed 2.5 million downloads after its September 8 launch — through 50 test prompts in one retail…

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