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Meta may charge newspapers to share news on Facebook; publishers denounce new rules

The World Association of News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) has requested that Meta suspend by 30 October a new clause allowing the company to crawl and scrape news websites as a condition for using its platforms. Publishers are concerned that this allows Meta to use journalistic content for commercial and AI-development purposes without authorization, and that new 'Meta One' subscription tests may restrict pages to only two free external links per month while simultaneously scraping their content for free.

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If you follow local news via Facebook or Instagram, this dispute over content access and new paid link limits may eventually restrict the news you see or change how publishers operate their pages in Portugal.

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