Meta has pushed the start of its new business terms to 20 November from 30 October, Reuters reported. Publishers say the terms let Meta crawl their websites for its products. The delay came a day after the News/Media Alliance demanded the terms be withdrawn.

Meta has pushed back new business terms that publishers say would let it scrape their websites, Reuters reported on Friday. The terms will now take effect on 20 November instead of 30 October.

The delay is “ to allow more time for us to explain to our partners and stakeholders what’s changing and what’s not, ” a Meta spokesperson said.

The wording publishers object to looked the same, and Meta still plans to go ahead, Fast Company reported . The spokesperson added that website owners can still use robots.txt, a file that tells crawlers which pages to skip, to signal their preferences.…