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Meta Delays Scraping Policy Amid UK Antitrust Probe and Legal Challenges

Meta pauses controversial content scraping terms while facing a UK antitrust investigation and lawsuits from publishers and creators.

8 publishers · 9 articles · first seen 28 Oct 2026 · updated 3d ago

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How the odds moved · Will Meta have the best AI model at the end of December 2026?
0%50%100%1%19 Sept, 11:07 UTCnowArs Technica: Trump wanted to give No Kings no air. Then, Meta suspended its Instagram. · 3 Nov, 15:39 UTCBloomberg Technology: Meta Investigated by UK Over Alleged Harm Caused in Commercial Small Print · 30 Oct, 12:15 UTCFortune: Meta says automation wrongly took down No Kings and a Senate candidate’s page. It’s automating more anyway · 4 Nov, 01:49 UTCBillboard: What’s at Stake in the Dismissal of Wixen’s Lawsuit Against Meta — And Why It Refiled Its Complaint (Guest Column) · 3 Nov, 15:00 UTCQuartz: Meta is delaying new business terms that would let it scrape news sites · 2 Nov, 20:12 UTCTimes of India: Publisher with 25m Facebook followers loses key claim over Meta's 2020 shutdown · 31 Oct, 22:23 UTCQuartz: Meta faces an antitrust probe in the U.K. over terms that could let it scrape publisher content · 30 Oct, 12:51 UTCInc.: Meta Keeps Changing Its Most Controversial Policy. It Still Hasn’t Fixed The Worst Part · 29 Oct, 21:07 UTCRSS 2.0: Meta weighs delaying 'alarming' new business terms as backlash grows · 28 Oct, 19:42 UTC

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The story so far

8 publishers have covered this in 9 articles since 28 Oct 2026. RSS 2.0 published first, on 28 October at 19:42 UTC; Inc. followed 25h 25m later. The most recent article, from Fortune, appeared on 4 November at 01:49 UTC.

Outlets reporting it: Bloomberg Technology (major outlet), Ars Technica (major outlet), RSS 2.0, Inc., Quartz, Times of India, Billboard, Fortune.

2 prediction markets price this story:

  • Will Meta have the best AI model at the end of December 2026? — the market puts it at 1%, with $6k traded in the last 24 hours, closing 31 Dec 2026. The market resolves by checking the Chatbot Arena LLM Leaderboard on December 31, 2026, at 12:00 PM ET to see which company owns the model with the highest rank. If ranks are tied, the system uses the precise arena score and then alphabetical order of company names as tiebreakers.
  • Will Meta have the best AI model at the end of November 2026? — the market puts it at 0%, with $2k traded in the last 24 hours, closing 1 Dec 2026. The market resolves to Yes if Meta owns the model with the highest rank on the arena.ai Text Arena leaderboard at 12:00 PM ET on November 30, 2026. Readers often mistake the date of the linked news story for the resolution deadline or ignore the requirement that style control must be off during the check.

Odds are the market's probability that the outcome happens, updated every few minutes. They are information about what traders expect, not a forecast we make and not investment advice.

How it unfolded

Every source in the order it published, with the odds on Will Meta have the best AI model at the end of December 2026? at that moment. A dash means the source published before we started tracking prices.

  1. RSS 2.0Meta weighs delaying 'alarming' new business terms as backlash grows1%
  2. Inc.Meta Keeps Changing Its Most Controversial Policy. It Still Hasn’t Fixed The Worst Part1%
  3. Bloomberg TechnologyMeta Investigated by UK Over Alleged Harm Caused in Commercial Small Print1%
  4. QuartzMeta faces an antitrust probe in the U.K. over terms that could let it scrape publisher content1%
  5. Times of IndiaPublisher with 25m Facebook followers loses key claim over Meta's 2020 shutdown1%
  6. QuartzMeta is delaying new business terms that would let it scrape news sites1%
  7. BillboardWhat’s at Stake in the Dismissal of Wixen’s Lawsuit Against Meta — And Why It Refiled Its Complaint (Guest Column)1%
  8. Ars TechnicaTrump wanted to give No Kings no air. Then, Meta suspended its Instagram.1%
  9. FortuneMeta says automation wrongly took down No Kings and a Senate candidate’s page. It’s automating more anyway1%
  10. Current odds1%

Sources

Every article we clustered into this story. Headlines link to the publisher.

  1. Trump wanted to give No Kings no air. Then, Meta suspended its Instagram. Ars Technica ·
  2. Meta Investigated by UK Over Alleged Harm Caused in Commercial Small Print Bloomberg Technology ·
  3. Meta says automation wrongly took down No Kings and a Senate candidate’s page. It’s automating more anyway Fortune
  4. What’s at Stake in the Dismissal of Wixen’s Lawsuit Against Meta — And Why It Refiled Its Complaint (Guest Column) Billboard
  5. Meta is delaying new business terms that would let it scrape news sites Quartz
  6. Publisher with 25m Facebook followers loses key claim over Meta's 2020 shutdown Times of India
Show 3 more sources
  1. Meta faces an antitrust probe in the U.K. over terms that could let it scrape publisher content Quartz
  2. Meta Keeps Changing Its Most Controversial Policy. It Still Hasn’t Fixed The Worst Part Inc.
  3. Meta weighs delaying 'alarming' new business terms as backlash grows RSS 2.0

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  • Polymarket Will Meta have the best AI model at the end of December 2026? 1% $6k 24hends 31 Dec 2026

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  • Polymarket Will Meta have the best AI model at the end of November 2026? 0% $2k 24hends 1 Dec 2026

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