> Facebook is the primary source of news in Myanmar (in part due to the Facebook program “Free Basics”, explained more below) It's like everything all the cri

> Facebook is the primary source of news in Myanmar (in part due to the Facebook program “Free Basics”, explained more below) It's like everything all the critics have said about Free Basics has come true, and then some. I'm glad the activists were able to kill that program in most of the big countries in which Facebook was pushing it. We could have been talking about a similar situation in India, too, if most Indians got their news from Free Basics by now, especially with India's history of violence between various religious groups, too.