The government has halted the program over concerns that Facebook violates Net neutrality by offering only certain Web content for free. Lance Whitney is a freelance technology writer and trainer and ...

As recently as last week, Facebook was touting the growth of Free Basics, its Internet.org project designed to give users free curated web access in developing countries, but the app isn’t working out ...

Facebook’s announcement last week that it is rebranding its Internet.org initiative—a bundle of free Internet services that has been rolled out, step by step, in developing countries over the last ...

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, ...

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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about business in India, especially the new economy. A ferocious resistance has built up in India to Facebook's ballyhooed ...

Facebook’s Free Basics app aimed at providing free online services in developing countries is not what it claims to be. Njeri Wangari Wanjohi is a Kenyan writer and poet. Kofi Yeboah is a Ghanaian ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Facebook says it's changing the name of its controversial Internet.org app and mobile website to Free Basics by Facebook. The rebranding will help consumers better distinguish between ...

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 ...