THE FUSE

But Stone's statement doesn't address the fact that the new terms are still "a substantial expansion of Meta's scraping permissions," as Nieman Lab reports in its latest piece on the changes. A number of legal experts told the publication that Meta is permitted to scrape news websites with seemingly few restrictions under the revised terms. Though Stone claims the changes "don't give us new rights to supersede" content owners' robots.txt preferences, robots.txt is not legally binding. And AI companies regularly evade robots.txt instructions.