Tuesday, March 19, 2024

Case study finds the drawbacks of Facebook’s ‘free’ internet

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Facebooks successor to its Internet.org web for all service, Free Basics, has had a troubled rollout. India notoriously shut it out of the country back in February 2016 for violating net neutrality (prioritizing Facebook services), with Egypt blocking it months later over privacy concerns. Still, the social titan has deployed Free Basics free internet to 63 countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America — and wants to bring it to the United States soon. But a report released today c…<...
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