New Delhi, Oct. 18 -- Meta is updating its website terms once again after facing backlash, with the social media giant now removing language that suggests it can scrape content from sites, including news websites, to train its artificial intelligence (AI) models.

The update, which will go into effect on 30 October, will take into account news publishers along with business accounts. This will affect all websites, especially news websites, which have at least one Meta business account.

The change which was published on 17 October removes a sentence that explicitly authorised Meta to use content collected from specified domains, webpages and URLs to "train" its products and services. The revised provision instead ties the stated purposes ...