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 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 ...

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 ...

Remember Free Basics? Facebook’s ambitious program to bring people to the internet for the first time. It has a new baby named Discover — an app that lets you visit any website with data limits.

Facebook's polarizing and somewhat controversial billion-dollar free Internet project, Internet.org, is today seeing some pretty big changes. The two-year-old project to bring Internet access to four ...

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 ...

From an investor's perspective, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg's plans to bring Internet connectivity to the world's underserved masses isn't exactly a game changer. However, there are certainly some ...

Mark Zuckerberg is not a man used to failure. He has built a $600-billion empire, buying up or crushing most would-be competitors and brushing regulators aside. When, in 2015, he personally headed up ...

After India’s telecom regulator moved to suspend Facebook’s “Free Basics” service for zero-rated basic Internet service last week, founder Mark Zuckerberg came to its defense today in a charmingly ...

Facebook has been in talks for months with U.S. government officials and wireless carriers with an eye toward unveiling an American version of an app that has caused controversy abroad, according to ...

Facebook has a new connectivity app called Discover to help those who can’t afford to get online access information on the web. The service, available through mobile web and Android app, allows users ...

Mark Zuckerberg’s vision for bringing Internet access to the developing world has quickly expanded to more than 30 countries. But it is now hitting a major roadblock from net neutrality activists in ...