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 ...

Facebook is urging users to lobby India’s telecoms regulator in defence of its Free Basics service which the social media giant claims could be banned “within weeks”. The company is urging users to ...

India has passed a new law that prevents telecom services from charging different tariffs based on content, a move that will have significant repercussions for big tech companies -- including Facebook ...

After India’s telecom regulator moved to suspend Facebook’s “Free Basics” service for zero-rated basic Internet service last week, founder Mark Zuckerberg came to its defense today in a charmingly ...

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 ...

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 ...