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Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg last month told Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi that a trip to the South Asian nation helped him at a difficult time in the company’s history – and this month he will return again.
Mr. Zuckerberg is arriving in New Delhi later this month to host a townhall Q&A at the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi.
In a post on his verified Facebook account, Mr. Zuckerberg said the event would begin on Wednesday, Oct. 28 at noon.
“More than 130 million people use Facebook in India. I’m looking forward to hearing directly from one our most active and engaged communities,” the post said.
He asked Facebook users to submit questions as comments on his post, adding that he would answer them at the event and take questions from the audience.
During the visit to India, Mr. Zuckerberg will also meet with developers, partners “and others who are building new digital services and working on ways to connect more people to them,” Facebook said in a statement.
A few hours after the announcement appeared on Facebook on Friday, more than 70,000 users had liked the post and close to 7,000 had commented.
The comments ranged from users asking when they would stop getting requests for “Candy Crush Saga,” a puzzle game played through Facebook, to people wondering when users in India will be able to use the seven different emojis, or “reactions” that the social-networking company rolled out in Ireland and Spain earlier this month.
Others asked Mr. Zuckerberg to clarify his stance on net neutrality, a view that Internet providers shouldn’t dictate consumer access to websites.
Facebook has faced criticism over its Internet.org initiative, available in 19 countries including India, which aims to increase Internet access in hard-to-reach areas.
Campaigners say that the way Internet.org partners with telecom companies is at odds with the principle of net neutrality, the notion that Web providers should not control which sites users can access.
The Internet.org app typically provides a simplified, low-data version of Facebook, its Messenger service and selected local websites offering services like jobs, health information and sports updates.
Mr. Zuckerberg has defended the project. In a Facebook post in April, he wrote that “to give more people access to the internet, it is useful to offer some services for free.” The principles of net neutrality and universal connectivity “can and must coexist,” he added.
Mr. Zuckerberg met Mr. Modi during his visit to Silicon Valley last month.
During a town-hall at the company’s headquarters at Menlo Park, he said he had visited a temple in India to “reconnect with what I believed was the mission of the company” when he was contemplating selling the company. The suggestion to visit the temple had come from Apple Inc. founder Steve Jobs, he said.
Mr. Zuckerberg last visited India in October last year for a summit aimed at finding more ways to get more people online.
Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg Is Headed to India Again - India Real Time - WSJ
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