'It's digital colonialism': how Facebook's free internet service has failed its users

Free Basics, built for developing markets, focuses on ‘western corporate content’ and violates net neutrality principles, researchers sayFree Basics, Facebook’s free, limited internet service for developing markets, isneither serving local needs nor achieving its objective of bringing people online for the first time.That’s according to research by citizen media and activist group Global Voices, published this week, which examined the Free Basics service in six different