Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day. Give him access to a handful of websites, and he’ll pull himself out of poverty.
That’s the reasoning of Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook CEO and lately self-ordained saviour of the developing world. In 2013, Facebook launched Internet.org, an initiative which would offer free internet services in 37 countries – with a catch.
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