Free Basics, formerly Internet.org, is under fire from net neutrality advocates for its India operations. Source: Facebook. There's an old, but cynical, maxim: "No good deed goes unpunished." More ...

Facebook's polarizing and somewhat controversial billion-dollar free Internet project, Internet.org, is today seeing some pretty big changes. The two-year-old project to bring Internet access to four ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Queenie Wong was a senior writer for CNET News, focusing on social media companies including Facebook's parent company Meta, Twitter and TikTok. Before joining CNET, she worked for The Mercury News in ...

It has been less than two months since the nationwide launch of the Free Basics app in India. The smart phone application (formerly known as Internet.org) offers free access to Facebook, ...

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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 ...