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FacebookBot

AI Training Crawler Meta robots.txt behaviour unknown

Meta's AI speech recognition training crawler

User-Agent

Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; FacebookBot/1.0; +https://developers.facebook.com/docs/sharing/webmasters/facebookbot/)

Allow FacebookBot in robots.txt

User-agent: FacebookBot
Allow: /

Block FacebookBot in robots.txt

User-agent: FacebookBot
Disallow: /

Blocking stops your content being used for model training. It does not remove you from AI search results — that's governed by separate search/assistant bots.

Official documentation: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/sharing/bot/

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