Facebook initiates blitzkrieg ad campaign for Free Basics in India (opens in new tab)

Wow! How much money has FB spent so far on advertising this "philanthropic" service?

From users accidentally supporting [1] Free Basics; to Facebook asking American and Canadian users to email India's telecom regulator in "error" [2]; to even dead people supporting Free Basics [3], it's all part of Facebook's philanthropic efforts in India.

[1] https://twitter.com/singersuchi/status/677734574319767552

[2] https://recode.net/2015/12/21/facebook-accidentally-asks-u-s...

[3] https://twitter.com/grondmaster/status/677797484781957120

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In Soviet Rus^H^H Most large corps have a dirty tricks dept, but in Capitalist USA, dirty tricks dept has FB #NetNeutrality #SaveTheInternet

FB is going all out to promote it's rebranded Internet.org initiative (now named Free Basics) to capture and lock in poor user on the platform. Since it's first attempt was thwarted, they have now brought out their dirty tricks department to "influence" or (rather misinform - a better word to describe the situation) Indian citizens. It has bought out front-page ads on popular newspapers, hoarding on trafficked roads and misleading ads on FB and youtube to do a sneaky campaign to mislead people to support the initiative.

So, Facebook says they "fixed" the issue of showing notifications to people outside India -- How exactly would they fix this? If an email is delivered to TRAI's mailbox, it stays delivered, doesn't it?