Surprise! Facebook Wants to Get the Entire World on the Internet

In either a selfless bid to change the world or an unsurprising play to get another billion users on Facebook, good ol’ Zuckerberg has announced a new initiative called Internet.org that teams up Facebook with Samsung, Nokia, Qualcomm and Ericsson to somehow make the Internet available to the entire world. There aren’t any balloons involved like Google’s Project Loon, just good old fashioned do goodery like simplifying apps, cutting cost of data and general Internetting efficiency.

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