“Does Meta think we can’t read?” Meta abandons sketchy commercial terms update.

Meta withdrew a proposed ads and business terms update after publisher criticism and bipartisan pressure, including letters from Sens. Adam Schiff and Marsha Blackburn asking Mark Zuckerberg to withdraw the terms. Meta communications VP Andy Stone said the company would delay implementation and consult industry groups, and Meta insisted its crawling practices remain unchanged and that content owners can still signal preferences via robots.txt. Nieman Lab noted Meta's revised terms still include no specific language about respecting robots.txt preferences.