Meta paused proposed updates to four sets of business and advertising terms on November 6, 2026. The changes would not take effect on November 20, and Meta said its existing terms remain in effect, Reuters reported.
For Meta Business users, the immediate status is the one the company stated: its existing terms remain in effect during the pause.
Which terms did Meta pause?
The pause covered proposed updates to the Commercial Terms, Product Catalog Terms, Self-Serve Ad Terms, and Ad Creative Generative AI Terms.
Who would the proposal have affected?
Ars Technica described the proposal as applying to Meta Business accounts and external websites linked from Facebook business pages. Publishers and other stakeholders objected because they feared the terms could allow extensive crawling of those sites for AI-related uses.
Meta had initially planned to put the updates into effect on October 30, then moved the date to November 20. NeoTeo’s earlier coverage of the proposed November 20 start date describes that earlier timetable. Meta’s November 6 announcement said the updates would not take effect on November 20.
Meta said website owners could continue using robots.txt to signal their preferences about crawling. Ars Technica reported that publishers criticized the proposed wording for lacking a specific commitment to respect those preferences.
