Facebook's free-access Internet is limited – and that's raised questions over fairness

Despite the importance of the Internet to contemporary society, according to the ITU only 42% of the world's population are online. That leaves 4.3 billion people without the Internet, of which 90% live in the developing world. African, Asian and Latin American nations have some of the world's lowest rates of Internet use, where barriers include afforadability, lack of infrastructure, perceived lack of need and linguistic barriers.

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