This week, Facebook released Discover, the latest take on its Free Basics “web for all” work. Available in Peru, Discover is a mobile web and Android app that provides users with a daily balance of ...

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 ...

Queenie Wong was a senior writer for CNET News, focusing on social media companies including Facebook's parent company Meta, Twitter and TikTok. Before joining CNET, she worked for The Mercury News in ...

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 ...

Connecting to the Internet these days has become even more critical but it has also revealed just how wide the digital divide really is in many parts of the world. While many people do have phones, ...

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 ...