1/12/2024 0 Comments Basic facebookThe Outline reports that Free Basics has ended in “ half a dozen nations and territories,” including Bolivia, Papua New Guinea, Trinidad and Tobago, Republic of Congo, Anguilla, Saint Lucia and El Salvador. The result in some countries with previously low connectivity rates was that the social network became synonymous with the internet itself - and as we’ve seen, that can lead to a whole host of very real problems. The app provides users willing to sign up for Facebook with internet access that doesn’t count against their mobile plan - stuff like the weather and local news - but keeps them within a specially tailored version of the platform’s walled garden. Free Basics, an initiative under, is an app that offers users in developing markets a “free” Facebook-centric version of the broader internet. Its mission statement pledging to “bring more people online and help improve their lives” is innocuous enough, but Facebook’s strategy is extremely aggressive, optimized for explosive user growth in markets that the company has yet to penetrate. As the Outline originally reported and TechCrunch confirmed, the Free Basics program has ended in Myanmar, perhaps Facebook’s most controversial non-Western market at the moment. As recently as last week, Facebook was touting the growth of Free Basics, its project designed to give users free curated web access in developing countries, but the app isn’t working out everywhere.
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