In the Developing World, Facebook Is the Internet

Facebook is bringing millions of people online — but at the expense of their digital rights.

Savannah Wallace
The Startup
6 min readSep 6, 2020

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2016 was a scandalous year for Facebook. In addition to coming under fire for letting Cambridge Analytica use millions of American users’ data to customize election-related advertising, Facebook’s Free Basics application was…

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Savannah Wallace
The Startup

MA of International Studies holder, policy wonk, futurist, and matcha-lover.