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Facebook still controls the internet and computing in general in a lot of the world.
Meta has a controversial agreement with telecommunications companies that restricts some users on cheaper data plans to using specific apps and sites including those from Meta.
Intencipa and other teachers in Colombia are concerned their students will lose years of basic education, as traditional teaching methods are no longer effective.
“Here, Facebook is the king,” Luisa Cárdenas, a social sciences teacher in Quimbaya, in Colombia’s coffee region, told Rest of World. Her students “simply copy what comes up in the chat, but they’re not capable of analyzing what they’re replicating.”