Demonstrators from the Free Software Movement Karnataka in India hold placards during a protest against Facebook's Free Basics initiative, in Bangalore, Jan. 2, 2016. The group said Free Basics would ...

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg defended Free Basics in an op-ed article Getty Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has compared his company's Free Basics service with libraries and hospitals, in a staunch ...

Back in May, Facebook launched an Internet.org Platform initiative that let third-party developers get on board with the project - it meant other software makers could plug their wares into Mark ...

Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook are on a quest to save Free Basics, their initiative to that end previously known as Internet.org, a project designed to provide limited access to internet services to… By ...

Indian demonstrators of Free Software Movement Karnataka hold placards during a protest against Facebook's Free Basics initiative in Bangalore. Getty. On 8 February India's telecoms regulator blocked ...

Social networking giant Facebook has renamed its controversial Internet.org app as Free Basics by Facebook. The company says it's making the change "to better distinguish the Internet.org initiative ...

This must have been a pretty bad year for Mark Zuckerberg. He thought he'd be a hero, but now he's a pariah. Why? Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) Share on X (opens in a new window) Share on ...

The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has ordered the temporary suspension of Facebook's Free Basics Internet program. First reported by the Times of India, the agency asked Facebook ...

Facebook's Free Basics internet service has been banned in India in a row over net neutrality. The service, which offered free internet access to certain websites, has been ruled unfair by India's ...

A group of leading Indian academics have criticised Facebook's controversial Free Basics internet plan, saying it has "deep flaws". At least 50 professors of the Indian Institute of Technology and the ...

Facebook's Internet.org is getting a makeover. The organization, which is working to provide Internet access to far-flung corners of the globe, is changing the name of its apps to Free Basics. "We ...