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Internet.org is a non-profitable oraganisation founded by facebook and six other companies to bring affordable access to internet services to less developed countries by increasing efficiency, and facilitating the development of new business models around the provision of Internet access.

It has been criticized for violating net neutrality and favouring facebook's own services. An Indian journalist criticized it as" being just a Facebook proxy targeting India's poor" as it provides restricted Internet access to Reliance Telecom's subscribers in India.However, in early May 2015, Facebook announced that this platform would be opened to websites that met its criteria.

                                              video on internet.org



Internet.org was launched on August 20, 2013. At the time of launch, Facebook's founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg released a ten-page whitepaper he had written elaborating on the vision        where he wrote that Internet.org was a further step in the direction of Facebook's past initiatives, such as Facebook Zero, to improve Internet access for people around the world. He also said that "connectivity is a human right.





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