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Meta signs AI data deals with CNN, Fox News, People Inc, USA Today and Le Monde

Meta announced AI data agreements with a group of news publishers so Meta AI can answer news questions with real-time content and link out to the sources. Financial terms were not disclosed.

MENLO PARK, Calif., December 5, 2025 - Meta announced commercial AI data agreements with a group of news publishers, including CNN, Fox News, Fox Sports, Le Monde Group, People Inc, The Daily Caller, The Washington Examiner and USA Today and the USA Today Network. The deals let Meta AI answer news questions with real-time content and link to publishers' sites. Financial terms were not disclosed.1

Terms of the deal

Press Gazette reported that Meta said it is adding real-time content to its AI assistant and will prominently link out to its publisher partners. The company also said it wants to offer more global news, entertainment and lifestyle content on the platform.1 The page did not disclose payment amounts.

Digiday's 2025 timeline described the group as seven publishers and said the deals let Meta incorporate content into its Llama models, calling it Meta's first AI content licensing with publishers in that form.2

Background

Meta had struck its first AI news deal with Reuters in October 2024.3 In March 2026 Meta added Le Figaro, Prisa and Suddeutsche Zeitung and gave more detail on a News Corp agreement reported at up to $50 million a year.4

What it means for data sellers

The Meta announcements show a buyer assembling a broad panel of sources at once, spread across political leanings and content types, from news to lifestyle. A seller joining such a panel may be one of many, which usually limits negotiating leverage but increases the chance of a deal.

Sellers should check what the content may be used for, since sources describe both real-time answers and model use. A written scope, with exclusions, reduces the risk that a license for display becomes a license for training without further payment.

This entry is a news summary. SellYourAIData was not involved in the deal.

How the deal came together

  1. Meta announced the partners. On December 5, 2025 Meta named publishers including CNN, Fox News, People Inc, USA Today and Le Monde Group.
  2. Meta AI gets real-time content. Meta said it is adding real-time content to its assistant.
  3. Links go back to publishers. Meta said it will prominently link out to its publisher partners.
  4. Terms stayed private. No financial terms were disclosed.

Takeaways for companies with data

  • Meta had ended its earlier publisher arrangements, so these deals reopened paid news content.
  • Many sellers signed at once, so terms were likely similar.
  • Link-outs were the main non-cash benefit promised.

Sources

Every numbered reference above points to an entry here. Figures come from these pages as of the date shown at the top of the article. Where a source reports a number it got from unnamed people, the text says so.

  1. Who's suing AI and who's signing (Press Gazette, 2026)
  2. A timeline of the major deals between publishers and AI tech companies in 2025 (Digiday, December 2025)
  3. Meta Partners with Reuters to Bring Real-Time News to Its AI Chatbot (Maginative, October 2024)
  4. Meta is bringing more international news to its AI (Engadget, March 2026)

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