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Meta has postponed the rollout of new terms for its business accounts after opposition from media companies and open-web advocates. The new terms, which were set to take effect on October 30, would have allowed Meta to use automated software to scrape data from business accounts. Critics argued that this could enable Meta to build competing services using the scraped content. On October 28, a Norwegian court granted a temporary injunction against the new terms at the request of 180 Norwegian media companies. The U.K. Competition and Markets Authority has also launched an investigation into the terms. Meta maintains that the update is intended to improve ad and content recommendations, not to scrape news sites.
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