The pause covers four texts: Commercial Terms, Product Catalog Terms, Self-Serve Ad Terms and Ad Creative Generative AI Terms. Meta says it is continuing consultations with stakeholders.
The disputed provisions concerned automated collection from websites linked to business accounts, prompting concerns about reuse for AI. Nieman Lab obtained direct confirmation from Meta; Reuters also received the company’s position on 6 November. The pause means neither an end to all crawling nor a final ruling on the clauses’ legality.