Meta pulls proposed commercial terms of service after publisher backlash
Meta indefinitely delayed terms that would have let it scrape websites of Business account users, as UK publishers accused it of holding them over a barrel.
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- PressgazetteMeta ‘holding publishers over a barrel’, says News Media Association chief
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