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It comes preinstalled in a lot of phones and cant be uninstalled and in some phones they dont preinstall the main fb app instead they'd have something like 'facebook manager' or 'something service' which only shows up in app list when you select the "show system apps" option.
I've read stories that fb is basically the internet for countries in Africa. It's their version of America Online, but much worse.
Thats what internet.org was about, fb partnered with major telecoms in many countries with no net neutrality laws to let people use fb for free and a few other websites but except for wikipedia most were pretty much useless.
Internet.org redirects to https://about.meta.com/ just FYI.
Probably because you're accessing it from a country where its not available. free.facebook.com is also another link that only works in countries their internet.org is available in.
I think that just further proves how bad it is, with both links. I wasn't aware it was so expansive.