Facebook Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! === Internet.org === {{Main|Internet.org}} In August 2013, Facebook founded [[Internet.org]] in collaboration with six other technology companies to plan and help build affordable Internet access for underdeveloped and developing countries.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://info.internet.org/en/mission/|title=Internet.org|date=August 25, 2015|website=English|access-date=February 14, 2019}}</ref> The service, called Free Basics, includes various low-bandwidth applications such as [[AccuWeather]], [[BabyCenter]], [[BBC News]], [[ESPN]], and [[Bing (search engine)|Bing]].<ref name="TechCrunch">{{cite web |title=Facebook's Internet.org has connected almost 100M to the 'internet' |url=http://techcrunch.com/2018/04/25/internet-org-100-million/ |access-date=May 13, 2019 |website=[[TechCrunch]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/jul/27/facebook-free-basics-developing-markets|title='It's digital colonialism': how Facebook's free internet service has failed its users|last=Solon|first=Olivia|date=July 27, 2017|work=[[The Guardian]]|access-date=May 13, 2019|issn=0261-3077}}</ref> There was severe opposition to Internet.org in India, where the service started in partnership with [[Reliance Communications]] in 2015 was banned a year later by the [[Telecom Regulatory Authority of India]] (TRAI). In 2018, Zuckerberg claimed that "Internet.org efforts have helped almost 100 million people get access to the internet who may not have had it otherwise."<ref name="TechCrunch" /> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page