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 ...

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 ...

Free Basics, formerly Internet.org, is under fire from net neutrality advocates for its India operations. Source: Facebook. There's an old, but cynical, maxim: "No good deed goes unpunished." More ...

When Facebook launched its Free Basics app aimed at helping people without Internet access, they said that the app would serve as an “on ramp” to using the whole global Internet. But new research by ...

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 ...