Facebook on Thursday announced that it has shut down Free Basics in India.
Facebook announced Harvard alumna Sandberg's promotion to the eight-member board on Monday.
The comments drew sharp criticism from netizens with some calling Facebook's Free Basics plan as Internet colonialism.
'Google and Facebook need to be tamed, their garb of 'Investing in India's future' need to be pulled off,' observes Vibhu Arya.
This puts an end to Facebook's Free Basics and Airtel's zero rating plans in India.
The US president-elect met Silicon Valley's most powerful executives -- CEO of Microsoft Satya Nadella, Jeff Bezos of Amazon, Tim Cook of Apple, Elon Musk from Tesla, Larry Page and Eric Schmidt of Alphabet -- parent company of Google among others.
Mark Zuckerberg said one of his greatest regrets was that Facebook has been slow in identifying the Russian information operations in 2016.
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