Meta is backing off from sweeping changes to its commercial terms after getting slammed by publishers and digital rights groups. The social giant quietly wiped out controversial language that seemed to give its automated web crawlers free reign to scrape external news sites and business pages for AI model training. Walking back from sweeping data collection The sudden about-face comes right after legal scholars and media outlets spotted aggressive fine print inside Meta’s updated business agreements, which go into effect on October 30. The original clause allowed Meta to crawl any domain attached to a commercial account on Facebook, Instagram,…