Facebook has been trying to get India to fall in love with its Free Basics service for several months since it launched in February. CEO Mark Zuckerberg even visited the capital of New Delhi last week ...

This week, Facebook released Discover, the latest take on its Free Basics “web for all” work. Available in Peru, Discover is a mobile web and Android app that provides users with a daily balance of ...

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Remember Free Basics? Facebook’s ambitious program to bring people to the internet for the first time. It has a new baby named Discover — an app that lets you visit any website with data limits.

Last year, Facebook started a program called Discover, which builds on its Free Basics internet accessibility service. It offers users in some countries an allowance of free daily data to access any ...

Facebook has a new connectivity app called Discover to help those who can’t afford to get online access information on the web. The service, available through mobile web and Android app, allows users ...

The Indian telecom regulator on February 8, 2016 said no service provider should offer or charge discriminatory tariffs for data on the basis of content. “No service provider shall enter into any ...

Mark Zuckerberg is not a man used to failure. He has built a $600-billion empire, buying up or crushing most would-be competitors and brushing regulators aside. When, in 2015, he personally headed up ...

A new memoir by a former Meta Platforms Inc. (NASDAQ:META) executive reveals how Facebook’s massive campaign to promote Free Basics in India was ultimately undone by a single click. What Happened: In ...

A group of leading Indian academics have criticised Facebook's controversial Free Basics internet plan, saying it has "deep flaws". At least 50 professors of the Indian Institute of Technology and the ...

Facebook is urging users to lobby India’s telecoms regulator in defence of its Free Basics service which the social media giant claims could be banned “within weeks”. The company is urging users to ...

Facebook program offers free access to Internet (but only certain websites). I guess by the time you are the size of Facebook, pretending you are anything but pure evil is not required.