"Free Basics" for the poor - Internet.org

RCS Ottawa
Apr 13, 2016
1 min read

Facebook's aspiration of providing free internet to the parts of the world where it isn't available, has been met with criticism.

Billions of people have no internet access because the infrastructure hasn't been built. Enter Facebook, which has an initiative called Internet.org that aims to connect everyone in the world to the internet - and of course, to Facebook.

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