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 is struggling to make its Free Basics service — which allows people in 36 countries to access select websites for free — stick in its largest target market: India. Since it launched in the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Om Malik thinks Facebook has been disingenuous in its positioning of Internet.org, a.k.a., Free Basics. “Facebook Free Basics isn’t a charity,” he notes. “People will pay for it with their data … It ...