Facebook initially launched "Free Basics" as a way to bring basic internet services to countries with limited or no traditional internet connectivity, but now it sounds like the company is working ...

Facebook's controversial Free Basics service quietly disappeared from several markets over the past few months, according to The Outline. One of those countries is Myanmar, where it was accused of ...

Facebook is considering whether to launch a mobile application in the United States that would provide free access to a selection of websites, according to a Washington Post report today. Facebook has ...

When Facebook launched its Free Basics app aimed at helping people without Internet access, they said that the app would serve as an “on ramp” to using the whole global Internet. But new research by ...

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’s free internet service is designed to offer connectivity to disadvantaged countries but a new study is drawing attention to potential Free Basics flaws. Like India claimed when it banned the ...

A report released today by activist group Global Voices found that not only does Facebook’s Free Basics violate net neutrality principles, it’s not even very helpful to those who use it. Free Basics, ...