Updated: Meta, the company behind Facebook and Instagram, has raised a firestorm in the media world with new commercial terms that appeared to give it broad authorization to scrape users’ web pages for product development and AI training. News coverage originated from a tip from The Steampunk Explorer.
Honestly, any “creative business” that still does business through Mark Zuckerberg should have corrected themselves years ago. The next best time is today.
With these new terms, any creative business left on Facebook and IG needs to be called out for agreeing to Meta’s terms. This is the line artists can’t pass. Staying on Meta is scab behavior.
Doing business with Meta at all should be a reputational liability.