NEW DELHI: India’s telecom regulator has attacked Facebook over an aggressive campaign to drum up support for its controversial free Internet project after being deluged with millions of comments asking it not to ban the service.
In a letter dated Jan 18, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) accused the social media giant of carrying out a “crudely majoritarian and orchestrated opinion poll” in its lobbying effort, entitled Save Free Basics.
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