Today, Mark Zuckerberg published a lengthy opinion article in The Times Of India defending his attempt to connect millions of people to the Internet via a suite of Facebook-approved apps. It’s called ...

Facebook, through its Free Basics platform, hopes to bring the Internet to people in emerging markets. But not all countries are on board. Here’s why. Although Facebook isn’t the only company involved ...

Facebook’s Free Basics app aimed at providing free online services in developing countries is not what it claims to be. Njeri Wangari Wanjohi is a Kenyan writer and poet. Kofi Yeboah is a Ghanaian ...

Demonstrators from the Free Software Movement Karnataka in India hold placards during a protest against Facebook's Free Basics initiative, in Bangalore, Jan. 2, 2016. The group said Free Basics would ...

Facebook rebranded its Internet.org app as Free Basics in September A group of leading Indian academics have criticised Facebook's controversial Free Basics internet plan, saying it has "deep flaws".

Indian regulators have effectively blocked Free Basics, a controversial Facebook online service that sought to bring free access to a limited version of the social network and other sites to the ...

Facebook on Thursday rolled out a friendly-looking new privacy settings page, called “Privacy Basics.” With helpful graphics, cute animations, and a plain-English ...

As recently as last week, Facebook was touting the growth of Free Basics, its Internet.org project designed to give users free curated web access in developing countries, but the app isn’t working out ...

Land grab! Net neutrality! Imperialism! There was a lot of justified outrage (and perhaps delight) when Mark Zuckerberg’s dream of bringing the Internet to rural Indians came crashing down recently, ...