August 12, 2017 07:51 am PDT
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Study: Facebook's "zero rating" programs doesn't deliver anything except power for Facebook
LIRNEasia ("a pro-poor, pro-market think tank" in Malaysia) partnered with Mozilla to study the effect of zero-rating through which companies like Facebook offer bribes to wireless companies in poor countries to exempt an AOL-like walled garden managed by Facebook from their data-caps. (more…)
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