FacebookBot — What It Is and How to Handle It

FacebookBot is a web crawler used by Meta to download training data for its AI speech recognition technology.

Operator: Meta | Type: AI Training | Category: AI Crawler

FacebookBot is classified as an AI crawler. It accesses your content for AI-related purposes. If you want to protect your content from being used without compensation, consider blocking or monetizing access from this crawler with Centinel.

Centinel automatically detects FacebookBot using behavioral fingerprinting. When detected, you can allow it, block it, challenge it with an interstitial page, or set a per-request licensing fee — all enforced in real-time with under 2ms latency.