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Meta's terms update is in effect providing a legal authorization basis for crawling behavior, enabling it to possibly bypass purely technical constraints such as robots.txt and turn authorization that originally required separate negotiation into blanket consent given at user registration.
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Medium-term (~90 days)
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10/16/2026
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Valid until: 1/14/2027
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